Western and Asian light water reactors at the millennium threshold

This paper presents the most advanced Western and Asian light water reactor (LWR) designs. The following pressurized water reactor (PWR) and boiling w ater reactor (BWR) designers are covered: Westinghouse ((W) under bar), Bab cock and Wilcox (B&W-now part of Framatome), Combustion Engineering (CE-now ABB CE), Siemens (PWR), Framatome, Mitsubishi, General Electric (GE), Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Siemens (BWR), Hitachi and Toshiba. The motivations th at led to the design of the next generation of LWRs are discussed. The tech nical bases for evolutionary and innovative plants are summarized. Importan t safety features of some of the most complete tin operation, under constru ction or certified) evolutionary designs are described detail. Analogous im plementations of systems into other advanced designs are given. (C) 2000 El sevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.