The EBWR is the Atomic Energy Commission’s Experimental Boiling Water Reactor at Argonne National Laboratory 25 miles southwest of Chicago, and Congressman Carl T. Durham of North Carolina ...

Reactor reactions: the SNO+ detector has seen antineutrinos from distant reactors when it was filled with pure water. (Courtesy: SNO+) For the first time, pure water has been used to detect low-energy ...

General Electric (GE) has submitted its Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) for inclusion on a shortlist for approval in the UK. The country is facing the shutdown of its reactor fleet, ...

In the proposed simplified boiling water reactor, gravity and differences in density cause water to circulate naturally through the reactor system. The system operates much like a coffee percolator, ...

Boiling water reactors, or BWR, were developed in the 1950s by Idaho National Energy Laboratory and General Electric. They use heat created by nuclear fission to generate steam that powers a turbine.

Theoretical studies and experiments have been performed and there have been excursions form normal operating conditions in a few power reactors. During such an excursion, the difference between an ...