Generation III reactor

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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.

1 Generation III Reactors
2 Generation III+
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] 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.
System 80+ - a Combustion Engineering (now incorporated into Westinghouse) design.

[edit] Generation III+

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
European Pressurized Reactor or EPR - based on the French (Areva-EDF standardized PWR), the first unit is under construction in Finland at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant.[1]
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 [2]