GE BWR
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General Electric's BWR product line of boiling water reactors represents the designs of a relatively large percentage of the commercial fission reactors around the world.
Browns Ferry Unit 1 drywell and wetwell under construction, within a Mark I containment
BWR inside a Mark II containment.
LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station, located in Brookfield Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, near Marseilles, 11 miles southeast of Ottawa, serves Chicago and Northern Illinois with electricit
GE BWR
…but power density was increased by 10%. Available with either Mark I or Mark II containment. BWR Type 5 (BWR-5, BWR/5): Introduced in 1969, 1100 MWe (LaSalle 1–2). Same number of loops (2) & jet pumps (20), but the jet pumps were upgraded to a five nozzle design. Variable speed pumps were replaced with two-speed…
LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station NRC Image
The plant and its man-made lake viewed from an aircraft