Nuclear Knowledge Management

Advanced Technologies for Water Cooled Reactors

external URL: http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/NENP/NPTDS/Projects/hlwr.html

Light water reactors (LWRs) are dominating among the operating nuclear power plants throughout the world, both in number and total power. The current LWR technologies have proven to be economic, safe and reliable, and they have a mature infra­structure and regulatory base in several countries. The LWR-Technology Website provides an overview of the project and detailed information, including full text reports, on the results of recent activities.

Heavy water reactors are a significant proportion of world reactor installations. They provide fuel cycle flexibility for the future and can potentially burn the spent fuel from LWRs, with no major reactor design changes, thus extending resources and reducing spent fuel arising.

  • access to the full text of the most recent IAEA-TECDOCs in the field
  • IAEA Light Water Cooled Reactor Project
  • Heavy Water Moderated Reactors
URL: http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/NENP/NPTDS/Projects/hlwr.html
language: English
originator: International Atomic Energy Agency | Austria
access: open to the general public | free online access
type of data: online journals, articles, reports
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: IAEA | Light Water Reactors | Heavy Water Reactors | High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors | Fast Reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems
subject category: scientific and technical data | reactor technology
INIS/ETDE category: specific nuclear reactors and associated plants | general studies of nuclear reactors | nuclear physics including radiation physics
keywords: power reactors | nuclear physics