These include the presure "suppression pools' (wells in
boiling water reactors where steam can condense during an accident, but which might also filter out some fission products); ice condensing systems in some pressurized water reactors; and auxiliary buildings.
Targeting Resource-renewable
Boiling Water Reactors that can Reduce the Time Required for Decay in the Radioactivity of Waste Materials; Aiming for development of Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors that effectively use radioactive waste materials as fuel
A senior official with Russia's state atomic energy corporation Rosatom said in November that Hitachi-proposed advanced
boiling water reactors have not been tested outside Japan and could be extremely dangerous.
While there is no doubt that Sam Untermyer and Walter Zinn were responsible for the invention of the
boiling water reactor, the article does not do justice to the hundreds of world scientists, engineers, and operating personnel who evolved the 5 MWe natural circulation at Vallecitos into 1,400 MWe advanced
boiling water reactors.
The Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, located in Port Gibson, about 25 miles south of Vicksburg, Miss., has a 1,266-megawatt
boiling water reactor that entered service in 1985.
An advanced
boiling water reactor is to be installed at the plant.
The designs of GEH being considered are Generation III+ Economic Simplified
Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), GEH's newest reactor design which offers the world's most advanced passive safety systems, and GEH's Advanced
Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR), the world's only commercially proven Generation III reactor model.
To generate electrical power, these nuclear reactors use a boiling water system, known as a
boiling water reactor. These reactors continue to produce heat even after fission reactions have stopped.
With climate change and energy security concerns driving a global resurgence in support for nuclear energy, GE and Hitachi said they are combining their nuclear businesses "to become the world's foremost provider" of advanced
boiling water reactor (BWR) plants and related services.
Horizon, which was bought by Hitachi of Japan in November 2012, plans to build between four and six Advanced
Boiling Water Reactor (ABWRs) in the UK at its sites at Wylfa and Oldbury, Gloucestershire.