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Encyclopedia > ESBWR

The Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) is a generation III+ reactor which builds on the success of the ABWR. Both are designs by General Electric, and are based on their BWR design. A generation III reactor is a development of any of the generation II reactor designs incorporating evolutionary improvements in design which have been developed during the lifetime of the generation II designs, such as improved fuel technology, passive safety systems and standardised design. ... The Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) is an improved design of boiling water reactor. ... The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ... A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a light water reactor design used in some nuclear power stations. ...


The ESBWR is a passively safe design using natural circulation with no recirculation pumps or their associated piping. Passively safe is a form of nuclear reactor which uses the laws of physics to keep the nuclear reaction under control rather than engineered safety systems. ...


External links

  • Announcement of two proposed ESBWR sites in the USA (2004).


 

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