Reactor type:Boiling water reactor Electrical capacity:300 MW(e) net to the grid Primary circulation:Natural circulation Fuel enrichment:3.81% (avg)/4.95% (max) Refueling cycle:12-24 months Approach to safety systems:Fully passive Design life:60 years ...
Innovating a cost-competitive small modular nuclear reactor: BWRX-300Jon W. BallAmerican Physical Society
[5] ANS, More BWRX-300 units to be deployed at Darlington, July 10, 2023. [6] WNN, BWXT to manufacture BWRX-300 reactor vessel, 22 March 2023. [7] ANS, GEH Nuclear Energy celebrates three-nation plan for BWRX-300 standard design, March 23, 2023. [8] WNN, TVA, GEH cooperate on ...
sharing best practices and experience. The agreement specifies that this cooperation "may expand to facilitate a joint technical review of advanced and small modular reactor designs, including the BWRX-300".
1 Sonal Patel, NRC Accepts Application for Kairos Pebble-Bed Reactor Construction Permit, POWER, Dec 2, 2021 2 ANS, GE Hitachi SMR chosen for Darlington project, Nuclear News, December 3, 2021 3 WNN, OPG chooses BWRX-300 SMR for Darlington new build, 02 December 2021 ...
PKN Orlen, Poland's largest energy company, plans to build the world's second GE Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor by 2029 following the announcement of a potential $4 billion in support for the project by US financial institutions, CEO Daniel Obajtek said Apr 17. Obajtek spoke after ...
GE Vernova’s nuclear business,GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy(GEH), announced that it is part of a coalition of utility companies and supply chain partners that are collaborating to accelerate the deployment of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) in the U.S. ...
US-based GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Estonia’s Fermi Energia have signed an agreement to collaborate on the potential deployment of GEH’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) in the Baltic country. [press statement] GEH said in a statement that under the agreement, the two compani...
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced that it has officially begun the regulatory licensing process for its BWRX-300 small modular reactor. On December 30, 2019 the company submitted the first licensing topical report (LTR) for the BWRX-300 to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...
The BWRX-300 is the 10th generation of boiling water reactor designed by CE Hitachi and has a number of evolutionary features. We learned from the design of the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), the BWRX-300's predecessor, that implementation of a plant design that utilizes pa...