The Simplified Boiling Water Reactor

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Recently, there has been increasing utility interset in potential future nuclear units combining the characteristics of smaller size, greater simpliciry, and more passive safty features, GE notes. This interest is driven by a worldwild slowdown in electrical growth rate--providing an incentive for smaller capacityadditions and short construction schedules-- and by recongition that smaller nuclear units offer potential simplifications with attendant economics benefits.