boiling water reactor
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- noun
- /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ ˈwɔːtər riˈæktər/
- Specialized
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reactor de agua en ebullición
- The boiling water reactor uses water that turns into steam to drive the electricity-generating turbine.
- General Electric boiling water reactor
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Unit 6 was built 10 months quicker than the best time achieved for any of the previous boiling water reactors constructed in Japan.
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The Vallecitos boiling water reactor, at a General Electric test site, was the first nuclear power plant to contribute electricity to the grid, and so was the first to realize the goal of Atoms for Peace.
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In contrast, the development of the boiling water reactor as a competing concept happened against the odds.
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While the boiling water reactor might ultimately have cost and operational advantages, it would be much more challenging to analyze and therefore to control.
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Japan has installed mostly General Electric-designed boiling water reactors.
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This seminal patent describes the fundamental technology for the approximately 90 boiling water reactor plants that are operating in 10 different countries today.
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They represent advances in the established technologies of pressurized and boiling water reactors.
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General Electric has introduced an advanced boiling water reactor, or ABWR, with an increased rating of 1,350 to 1,600 MW of electricity.
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The boiling-water reactors at Fukushima, 40 years old and designed by General Electric, have spent fuel pools several stories above ground adjacent to the top of the reactor.
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The path had been prepared for commercialization, but the boiling water reactor would require the active support of a major corporation. General Electric, meanwhile, had contracted with the Navy for the development of nuclear-powered ships via the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
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Synonyms
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A nuclear reactor where water boils in the core to make steam that turns a turbine
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: it denotes a reactor in which water boils (i.e., a reactor that uses boiling water to produce steam). A learner who knows 'boiling', 'water', and 'reactor' can infer this basic concept even if they lack technical nuclear engineering details, and the same compound logic exists in many languages.
Etymology
The noun boiling water reactor names a reactor where water actually boils inside so the steam can turn turbines to make electricity. That's why the name means 'a reactor that makes steam by boiling water'.