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 Translation for 'BWR' from English to French
SYNO boiling water reactor | BWR
nucl.
réacteur {m} à eau bouillante <REB>
boiling water reactor <BWR>
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Translation for 'BWR' from English to French

boiling water reactor <BWR>
réacteur {m} à eau bouillante <REB>nucl.
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Usage Examples English
  • Unlike the rectangular PWR/BWR fuel assemblies or hexagonal VVER fuel assemblies, the RBMK fuel assembly is cylindrical to fit the round pressure channels.
  • From 1959 until 1982 there was a BWR nuclear power plant named "Garigliano" near the town Sessa Aurunca.
  • In boiling water reactors (BWR), the fuel is similar to PWR fuel except that the bundles are "canned".
  • Columbia Generating Station is a BWR-5. It features a Mark II containment structure.
  • Hope Creek is a boiling water reactor (BWR) unlike its neighbors at the nearby Salem Nuclear Plant which are pressurized water reactors (PWR).

  • It is a passive system for cooling of some reactors (BWR/2, BWR/3 ..., and the (E)SBWR series) in nuclear production, located above containment in a pool of water open to atmosphere.
  • Some reactors, including some BWR/2 and BWR/3 plants, and the (E)SBWR series of reactors, have a passive system called the Isolation Condenser.
  • Fukushima Daiichi's three destroyed reactors were generation II reactors; specifically Mark I Boiling water reactors (BWR) designed by General Electric.
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