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  • ...ctors (such as {{HoverText|PWR|Pressurised Water Reactor}}s or {{HoverText|BWR|Boiling Water Reactor}}s), extracting further energy from the fuel and prod
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  • By comparison in a boiling water reactor ([[BWR]]) the water cooling the core boils and passes as steam directly to the tur
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  • ...rcuit that supplies the Turbine via large steam generators. By contrast, a BWR requires no steam generators, the steam raised in the core going directly t ...re and the Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV). As the majority of the core of a BWR isn’t submerged under liquid water – instead, it’s immersed in liquid
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  • ...US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's [https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/bwrs.html BWR page]'' ...actors.pdf Nuclear Reactor Types] discusses and compares Magnox, AGR, PWR, BWR, CANDU, and RBMK reactors, and some future designs.
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  • ...t this point it is removed. In light water reactors such as [[PWR]]s and [[BWR]]s the reactor is shut down for refuelling outages; this typically happens
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  • ...70 are pressurized water reactors (PWR) and 84 are boiling water reactors (BWR) (IAEA, 2013a). The remaining reactor types consist of 48 heavy-water react ...ion, respectively (IAEA, 2013a). New reactors consist of 57 PWR, 5 PHWR, 4 BWR, 2 FBR, and one high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) (IAEA, 2013a).
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  • ...70 are pressurized water reactors (PWR) and 84 are boiling water reactors (BWR) (IAEA, 2013a). The remaining reactor types consist of 48 heavy-water react ...ion, respectively (IAEA, 2013a). New reactors consist of 57 PWR, 5 PHWR, 4 BWR, 2 FBR, and one high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) (IAEA, 2013a). C
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  • ...trying to do this with a pressurised ([[PWR]]) or boiling water reactor ([[BWR]]) - the most common types - they would be shutting it down for refuelling
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  • ..., steam generators…), so it was decided to design another type of reactor (BWR), cheaper to build. Safety systems are similar to those in BWR’s, based on an “Emergency Core Cooling System”, but with some deficie
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