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Abbreviations
- Brayton cycle:
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Thermodynamic cycle used for the generation of electricity in which a heated gas is driving the electric turbogenerator
- BWR:
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Boiling water reactor
- Eutectic:
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A mixture of two metals in liquid state (e.g., Pb-Be)
- HPM:
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Hyperion Power Module, a SMR designed by the GEN-IV Energy, a privately owned company
- IMSR:
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Integral Molten Salt Reactor, a SMR designed by Terrestrial Energy, a Canadian company
- LWR:
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Light water reactor
- mPower:
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A SMR designed by B&W
- NuScale:
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SMR designed by the NuScale Power company
- PRISM:
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Power Reactor Innovative Small Module, a SMR designed by GE Hitachi
- PWR:
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Pressurized water reactor
- SMR:
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Small modular reactor
- Super-Safe, Small, and Simple (4S):
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SMR designed by Toshiba and the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry of Japan
- TWR:
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Traveling wave reactor, a SMR designed by the TerraPower company
Bibliography
Small modular reactors, special issue of Nuclear Technology, May 2012
Ingersoll D (2016) Small modular reactors: nuclear power fad or future? Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge
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Tsoulfanidis, N. (2016). Small Modular Reactors. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_947-1
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