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    Germany. In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but is now...
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    light-water reactors: the pressurized water reactor (PWR), the boiling water reactor (BWR), and (most designs of) the supercritical water reactor (SCWR)....
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    Westinghouse's pressurized water reactor (PWR) designs for use in France. Similar agreements had been put in place with other European countries, and...
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    Core catcher (category Nuclear reactor safety)
    The core catcher of the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) has 170 m2 expansion area and a mass of 500 t. Examples of reactor types with core catchers...
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    States Economics of nuclear power plants Generation III reactor European Pressurized Reactor Nuclear Power 2010 Program EPR US-APWR VVER-TOI ACR Fennern...
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    frequencies for these reactors are designed to be lower than for Generation II reactors – 60 core damage events for the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) and 3...
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    Pressurized Reactor and the Franco-German European Pressurized Reactor. All the United States Naval reactors are of this type. Boiling water reactors...
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  • at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Framatome's (previously Areva) European Pressurized Reactor is the preferred design for the sites. Economics of new nuclear power...
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    industry. The corporation notably participated to all the EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) construction projects in the world (in Flamanville (France)...
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    It has two operating units that were the precursors to the European Pressurized Reactor, being the "N4 stage". Designed for a net power output of 1450...
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  • has built a third reactor at the Olkiluoto site for a total cost of price of over €8.5 billion. It is a European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), and has a power...
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  • design for a Pressurized water reactor (PWR) with an integral reactor coolant system layout, meaning the steam generators, pressurizer, control rod drive...
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  • Atmea (category Pressurized water reactors)
    develop, market, license and sell the ATMEA1 reactor, a new generation III+, medium-power pressurized water reactor (PWR). The company was headquartered in...
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    an AP1000, 48 months from first concrete to operation for a European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) and 45 months for an ESBWR) as opposed to over a decade...
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    A fast-neutron reactor (FNR) or fast-spectrum reactor or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is...
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    Control rod (category Pressurized water reactors)
    Boiling water reactors (BWR), pressurized water reactors (PWR), and heavy-water reactors (HWR) operate with thermal neutrons, while breeder reactors operate...
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    and 54.2 EUR/MWh. Generation costs from the new Flamanville European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) are estimated to be at least in the 70-to-90 EUR/MWh range...
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  • The Indian Pressurized Water Reactor-900 (IPWR-900) is a class of pressurized water reactors being designed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)...
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    the AP1000 and the European Pressurized Reactor plan to use both; which gives missile protection by the outer concrete and pressurizing ability by the inner...
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    APR-1400 (category Pressurized water reactors)
    The APR-1400 (for Advanced Power Reactor 1400 MW electricity) is an advanced pressurized water nuclear reactor designed by the Korea Electric Power Corporation...
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    well-established pressurized water reactors (PWR) have a primary cooling loop of liquid water at a subcritical pressure, transporting heat from the reactor core to...
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  • Nevertheless, construction of new-generation French reactors, including the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), persists domestically and internationally...
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    design was called the "American reactor" due to the pressurized water (PWR) design shared with many Western reactors. A top-secret invention patent for...
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  • Generation IV (Gen IV) reactors are nuclear reactor design technologies that are envisioned as successors of generation III reactors. The Generation IV International...
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    discussed. Pressurized melt ejection (PME) It is quite possible, especially in pressurized water reactors, that the primary loop will remain pressurized following...
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    modular construction. Reactor type and the nuclear processes may vary. Of the many SMR designs, the pressurized water reactor (PWR) is the most common...
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    gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which use uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high reactor core output...
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  • Bharat Small Reactor. Developed by the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) & INVAP, CAREM is a simplified pressurized water reactor (PWR) designed...
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  • of fifth reactor (the third at Olkiluoto) was accepted in the parliament. The reactor under construction is the European Pressurized Reactor, built by...
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    waste is already operational. The European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) at Flamanville, the first new nuclear reactor to be built in France in 15 years,...
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