Generation III reactor

Generation III reactor

A generation III reactor is a development of any of the generation II nuclear reactor designs incorporating evolutionary improvements in design which have been developed during the lifetime of the generation II reactor designs, such as improved fuel technology, passive safety systems and standardized design.

The reactors are used in nuclear power plants to produce nuclear power from nuclear fuel.

Generation III reactors

*Advanced Boiling Water Reactor or ABWR - A GE design which first went online in Japan in 1996.
*AP600 - A Westinghouse Electric Company design which received final design approval from the NRC in 1998 - none were built due to the economics of new nuclear power plants.Fact|date=September 2008
*System 80+ - a Combustion Engineering (now incorporated into Westinghouse) design.
*European Pressurized Reactor or EPR - an evolutionary descendant of the Framatome N4 and Siemens Power Generation Division KONVOI reactors.

Generation III+ reactors

Generation III+ designs are generally extensions of the Generation III concept which include advanced passive safety features. These designs can maintain the safe state without the use of any active control components.
*Advanced CANDU Reactor (ACR)
*AP1000 - based on the AP600
*Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) - based on the ABWR
*APR-1400 - an advanced PWR design evolved from the U.S. System 80+ which is the basis for the Korean Next Generation Reactor or KNGR [http://www.uic.com.au/nip16.htm]

ee also

* Generation II reactor.
* Generation IV reactor.
* List of reactor types.

External links

* [http://www.iaea.org/inis/aws/reactors.html Nuclear Reactors Knowledge Base] , IAEA
* [http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf08.html Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors] , World Nuclear Association, May 2008


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