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Article #3742Re: Tell Me About GE (General Electric)
From: Jason Edward Floyd
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 21:15
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 21:15
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John McCarthy (jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: 3. I notice that 1315MWe is larger than almost all previous reactors.
: I had read that the fashion was to build smaller reactors.
The ABWR is an 'evolutionary' design. That is, it is basically a modified
BWR VI. GE has another design, the SBWR (Simplfied Boiling Water Reactor
as opposed to Advanced), which is a 'revolutionary' design. The SBWR is
on the order of 600 MWe.
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: John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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: He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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Jason E. Floyd jfloyd@wam.umd.edu pnkfloyd@eng.umd.edu
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD 20742
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