To prepare the course participant for the topics discussed, this handbook provides a crash course into the current state of commercialized Light Water Reactor technology.

The reactor vessel is cylindrical, with a welded hemispherical bottom head and a removable, flanged and gasketed, hemispherical upper head. The vessel contains the reactor core, core support …

An example of this type of reactor is the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), with four currently under construction (one in France, one in Finland and two in China) and others planned, particularly in the UK.

The Natrium reactor maintains constant thermal power at all times, maximizing its capacity factor and value. Molten salt energy storage is more resilient, flexible and cost-effective than current grid-scale …

Gas-Cooled Reactor is cooled by flowing gas and designed to operate at high temperatures. Molten Salt Reactor uses molten fluoride or chloride salts as a coolant.

It is the tenth generation of the Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) and represents the simplest BWR design since General Electric (GE), GVH’s predecessor in the nuclear business, began developing nuclear …

EPR is an evolutionary reactor incorporating most recent technologies from N4 and KONVOI plants.