Light water reactors operate with a volatile coolant, requiring high pressure operation and depressurization in an emergency.
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Studsvik software has been used throughout the world for light water reactor core design, analysis, and operational support.
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Breeder reactor waste is mostly fission products, while light water reactor waste has a large quantity of transuranics.
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It is a light water reactor, the 54th TRIGA in the world designed and manufactured by General Atomics.
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Current light water reactors make relatively inefficient use of nuclear fuel, mostly fissioning only the very rare uranium-235 isotope.
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Because of these two facts, light water reactors have a relatively small moderator volume and therefore have compact cores.
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In the United States, all nuclear electrical power generation stations in service are of either the light water reactor design.
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The plant would function as a light water reactor and would have a capacity of 950 to 1, 650 megawatts.
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The United States wants to give Pyongyang South Korean-made light water reactors, something unacceptable to Pyongyang, ostensibly for security reasons.
