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From: ken@njitcccc.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: Safe Reactors?
Message-ID: <148@njitcccc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-May-86 08:08:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: njitcccc.148
Posted: Fri May 16 08:08:19 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 18-May-86 13:14:40 EDT
References: <226@prometheus.UUCP> <421@ccird1.UUCP>
Organization: NJ Inst of Tech., Newark NJ
Lines: 18
Keywords: Soviet Union, nuclear fire, nuclear reactors
Summary: 3 Mile island is NOT a BWR

In article <421@ccird1.UUCP>, rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
> It also mentions the BWR reactors (like 3 mile Island :-).

Three Mile Island is a PWR, pressurized water reactor.
The design is NOT a BWR, boiling water reactor. The difference
is that in a PWR the stem is generated in a heat exchanger. In
a BWR the steam is generated straight in the reactor.

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