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The first advanced boiling water reactors (ABWRs) were constructed in the early 1990s as Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant Nos. 6 and 7 in Japan. Each ABWR generates an electric power of 1,350 MW and features the application of several advanced technologies and components, such as reactor internal pumps, fine motion control drives, and a slightly wider pitch of control rods between fuel assemblies (the N-lattice) [1]. These increase the safety margins in a loss of coolant accident or for fuel thermal stress impact and provide further flexibility in using high burn-up fuel or mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.
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Nishimura, A. (2011). Full MOX Core Design of the Ohma ABWR Nuclear Power Plant. In: Saito, T., Yamashita, J., Oka, Y., Ishiwatari, Y. (eds) Advances in Light Water Reactor Technologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7101-2_6
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