Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor
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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.
The ESBWR is a passively safe design using natural circulation with no recirculation pumps or their associated piping.
External links
- [Global Nuclear Energy: A GE Perspective]: Address by the GE CEO (2003).
- [Announcement] of two proposed ESBWR sites in the USA (2004).
- Application for US certification (2005):
- * [Energy Online].
- * [NEI Nuclear Notes].
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