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boiling water reactor

NOUN
  1. a nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator; the water boils in the reactor core and the steam produced can drive a steam turbine

How To Use boiling water reactor In A Sentence

  • Boiling water reactors normally have load - following capability, implemented by varying the recirculation water flow.
  • Now the next slide gives you a simple version of a boiling water reactor, a schematic.
  • Only two years after TEPCO was allowed to restart its boiling water reactors, an earthquake in 2007 forced the company to admit its reactor in the Niigata Chuetsu-Oki region was not built to withstand such tremors. Jeffrey Rubin: Is Nature Trying to Tell Us Something?
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