ADVANCED LIGHT WATER REACTORS (ALWR)

The family includes

Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (1300 MWe)

Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (600 MWe)

• BWR Testing Facilities

  Confirming the design of these reactors hinges on the reservior of knowledge relative to that product. This knowledge is derived from years of testing these reactor have to go thru. In addition to the testing carried out at operating BWR plants and in conjunction with international BWR technical association, GE has built its own testing facility which is the largest privately owned testing complexes in the nuclear industry.

  Some images of ABWR under construction in Japan (3 images B/W, 490K)

All of the above information and images have been obtained from the brochures provided by GE.