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	ABWR Performance Characteristics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For added protection, the ABWR has an on-site, dedicated combustion turbine to provide a diverse source of emergency power to any of the three divisions of safety systems.
		Because the ABWR has more design margins, the frequency of transients resulting in reactor scram or initiation of a safety system has been greatly reduced.
		ABWR come equipped with features to passively mitigate the consequences of a severe accident.
	www.nuc.berkeley.edu /designs/abwr/safety.html (277 words)

	A MANUFACTURER'S VIEW OF THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY AND THE ROLE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
		Success of ABWR was realized through international cooperation and cooperative relations among the three key parties: the manufacturers, the user and the government.
		A major improvement in the ABWR, consistent with the trend of BWR improvement, is that it achieves further simplification of the primary recirculation loop by the adoption of Reactor Internal Pumps(RIP).
		Next ABWR will build on the favorable records established by the first units and is expected to start operation in the first half of 2000.
	www.worldenergy.org /wec-geis/publications/default/tech_papers/17th_congress/3_2_22.asp (2799 words)

	ABWR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The ABWR is the first of the next generation of advanced light water reactor (ALWR) plants to be committed to construction.
		General Electric (GE), Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp are building two ABWR units for operation in 1996 and 1997.
		Some images of ABWR under construction in Japan (3 images B/W, 500K)
	www.nuc.berkeley.edu /designs/abwr/abwr.html (64 words)

	Information about Bison Markers, Bison Phenotype & Fertility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One way for this assurance to be given would be for ABWR to agree to sign a contract with another corporation agreeing to accept animals that meet a specified set of standards.
		This does not mean that ABWR members would have to change their breeding, only that they not object to ABWR maintaining the registry.
		The offspring of animals registered in the ABWR Herdbook mated to a Marker Beefalo would be registered in the Marker Beefalo Registry as the same percentage Marker Beefalo as they would have been in the Herdbook if both parents had been registered in the Herdbook.
	www.beefalobeef.com /markers.htm (3108 words)

	Black&Veatch - News / Events - Media Coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The cost discussed here is for the first U.S. ABWR and is not contingent upon building four to six units as some kind of a package deal.
		The reason, of course, is that because ABWRs have been and continue to be built overseas (Japanese utilities, for example, are presently in the process of building six more ABWRs), the first U.S. ABWR will be the much sought after Nth-of-a-kind unit.
		Studies show that it is possible to construct an ABWR in only 30 months from first concrete, a savings of nine months that with a six-month startup would lead to a three-year construction schedule.
	www.bv.com /news/articles/may03/cost_schedule_risk.htm (2917 words)

	World Nuclear Association \| Articles, Editorials and Opinion \| New Reactor Designs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Two ABWRs are operating in Japan, and four are under construction, two each in Taiwan and Japan.
		While the ABWR design is usually associated in the United States with General Electric, the two units now being built in Japan are products of Toshiba and Hitachi.
		General Electric, Toshiba, and Hitachi have shown an interest in building ABWRs in the U.S. There are many variations in ABWR design with the most frequently mentioned capacities in the 1250-1500 MWe range.
	www.world-nuclear.org /opinion/eia_reactors.htm (5603 words)

	Beefalo Producer Supplier Michigan Beefalo Association
		With the trend toward healthier eating firmly established, Beefalo is poised to move to the forefront.
		The formation of the American Beefalo World Registry has been an evolutionary process as the ABWR is the culmination and unification of work done by individuals in three former Beefalo organizations: The American Beefalo Association, the World Beefalo Association, and the International Beefalo Breeders Registry.
		The ABWR is comprised of approximately 850 members, some annual and some lifetime memberships.
	www.virtualcities.com /trade/f/bf/8/tfbf8613.htm (685 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The plant's design is based upon the proven ABWR (Advanced Boiling Water Reactor) design with improvements aimed at meeting the high safety standards of Finnish regulators and the customer's requirements.
		Moreover, the ABWR design we proposed has new safety features and improvements in the technology areas of digitized control and instrumentation and modern control room.
		Steve Hucik, general manager, Nuclear Plant Projects for GE, noted that similar versions of the proposed Finnish ABWR are in operation or under construction in other major industrialized countries.
	www.livepowernews.com /stories03/0409/062.htm (392 words)

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		Improvements in the safety of the ABWR designed by General Electric resulted in significantly more compacted designs: the volume of the ABWR building is approximately one third smaller than those of the present BWR buildings, resulting in less construction time and expenses.
		One of two General Electric ABWR in Japan was completed in just over four years, over three months ahead of schedule.
		Modern digital technology and fiber optics are used for control and instrumentation in the plant, significantly decreasing the amount of cabling in the plant and time required to build the plant.
	www.nd.edu /~techrev/Archive/Spring2000/a4.html (1237 words)

	Accotink Bay Letterbox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Accotink Bay Wildlife Refuge (ABWR) is located near Lorton, VA, Fairfax county, on the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir.
		Since September 11th, 2001, the Army has setup a security post adjacent to the ABWR entrance.
		They use the far end of the parking lot to hand out temporary passes to the base.
	members.cox.net /ae4mk/letterbox/accotink.htm (933 words)

	WISE NC: NEW GENERATIONS: THE ADVANCED BOILING WATER REACTOR
		The containment of the ABWR is equipped with a so-called overpressure relief device.
		The opening of the seventh reactor and the fact that the station reached the status of the þworld's largestþ, was reason for local officials to give more attention to the raising amount of radioactive spent fuel being stored at the complex.
		The ABWR was said to be the first advanced boiling water reactor to be operated.
	www.antenna.nl /wise/487/4833.html (1129 words)

	ADVANCED NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY: A PROVEN WAY TO SUSTAIN WORLD DEVELOPMENT INTO THE NEXT MILLENNIUM
		For example, the ABWR design employs a network of safety systems that are more redundant and diverse than its predecessors and is designed to dramatically mitigate the consequences of even a "severe accident" of the type that occurred at Three Mile Island.
		The ABWR has been scrutinized and licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in what has been described as the most exhausting review ever undertaken by the NRC.
		As a result, and because of the project experience in Japan and Taiwan, GE believes an ABWR could be built in the U.S. in four years for $1600/kw (overnight cost) which would make it an attractive option indeed.
	www.worldenergy.org /wec-geis/publications/default/tech_papers/17th_congress/2_2_06.asp (2348 words)

	Section 10CFR52.113
		Scope and Contents A. Tier 1, Tier 2, and the generic technical specifications in the U.S. ABWR Design Control Document, GE Nuclear Energy, Revision 4 dated March 1997, are approved for incorporation by reference by the Director of the Office of the Federal Register in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR Part 51.
		E. Design activities for structures, systems, and components that are wholly outside the scope of this appendix may be performed using site-specific design parameters, provided the design activities do not affect the DCD or conflict with the interface requirements.
		V. Applicable Regulations A. Except as indicated in paragraph B of this section, the regulations that apply to the U.S. ABWR design are in 10 CFR Parts 20, 50, 73, and 100, codified as of May 2, 1997, that are applicable and technically relevant, as described in the FSER (NUREG-1503) and Supplement No. 1.
	a257.g.akamaitech.net /7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2002/janqtr/10cfr52.113.htm (14625 words)

	NNI - No Nukes Inforesource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		First ABWR started operation in Japan, its design is basically traditional BWR technology except for some items: the ten internal recirculation pumps are positioned inside the reactor pressure vessel.
		The ABWR has passive severe accident mitigation features to protect the containment from overpressurization: One system floods the lower drywell - this system is passive, initatited by high temperatures.
		Core melt frequency is estimated to be lower than 0,0000001.
	www.ecology.at /nni/abwr.htm (148 words)

	New Reactor Designs
		Three ABWRs operate in Japan, and three are under construction, two in Taiwan and one in Japan.
		While the ABWR design is usually associated in the United States with General Electric, units now being built in Japan are products of Toshiba and Hitachi.
		The ESBWR constitutes an evolution and merging of several earlier designs including the ABWR that are now less actively pursued by GE and other vendors beyond the exceptional case of Bellefonte in Alabama.
	www.eia.doe.gov /cneaf/nuclear/page/analysis/nucenviss2.html (6017 words)

	General Electric’s Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) standardized design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With no prospect for new domestic reactor orders in the United States, General Electric began marketing its Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) standardized design overseas before it was approved and certified for licensing by the U.S. NRC in May1997.
		The consortium of GE, Hitachi and Toshiba completed construction of two ABWR units whose design is similar to that certified by NRC.
		Toshiba and Hitachi plans to build their own ABWRs have recently been delivered serious setbacks, including the cancellation of the Ashihama 1 and 2 project as the result of growing public opposition and finally a precedent setting withdrawal of support and cooperation by the Mayor of the Mie prefecture.
	www.nirs.org /mononline/geglobalization.htm (328 words)

	World Nuclear Association \| Information \| Nuclear Power in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The new designs, based on ABWR and APWR, are to lead to a 20% reduction in construction and generation costs and a 20% reduction in spent fuel quantity, with improved safety, 3-year construction and 60-year life.
		The first ABWRs (of 1315 MWe) were Tokyo Electric Power Co's (Tepco's) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa units 6 and 7 which started up in 1996-97 and are now in commercial operation.
		Three further ABWRs - Hamaoka-5, Shika-2 and Shimane-3 - are currently being commissioned or are under construction.
	www.world-nuclear.org /info/printable_information_papers/inf79print.htm (4742 words)

	ANS : Publications : Journals : Nuclear Technology : Volume 148 : Modeling and Simulation of the ABWR with Transient ...
		Features of an ABWR are reactor internal pumps (RIPs) placed in the lower plenum and downcomer, peripherally bottom-mounted on the reactor pressure vessel - which should require different modeling from the jet pumps and two recirculation pumps in the primary outer-loop recirculations of BWR-5.
		Efforts focused on modeling and simulating the ABWR with transient analyses by the point-kinetics model with the local reactivity modified by local importance weighting of the squared nodal power during start-up tests using the RETRAN-3D code, version MOD003 without three-dimensional kinetics.
		The core and reactor pressure vessel including ten ABWR RIPs and the steam lines were modeled, and simulations were carried out for the cases of the one-pump trip test, the changing-setpoint tests, the main-steam-isolation-valve-closure test, and the generator load rejection test with bypass.
	www.ans.org /pubs/journals/nt/va-148-1-12-24 (265 words)

	GE Energy - Press Release
		“Our bid of ABWR is both an excellent fit for TVO as well as a reflection of our strategy and long term commitment to technology leadership in the global nuclear industry,” said Andrew White, GE Nuclear Energy president.
		Safe and reliable generation is what GE’s ABWR has to offer,” said Per Ericsson, GE’s senior executive, Nordic Region.
		If selected by TVO, the Finnish ABWR would be the fifth ABWR to be supplied by the experienced GE team.
	www.gepower.com /about/press/en/2003_press/040803.htm (411 words)

	Nuclear Engineering International
		The deputy director of the Preparatory Office of the State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation of China said in a speech on 21 June that China would likely buy an ABWR from General Electric.
		Xu said that China was looking at GE's ABWR as an option for the future.
		When asked during the question-and-answer session following his speech how soon China might buy the ABWR, Xu dodged the question and instead talked about how busy China was going to be putting online an average of three reactors annually and how the country looked forward to working with its international partners.
	www.neimagazine.com /story.asp?sectioncode=132&storyCode=2029338 (294 words)

	World Nuclear Association \| Information \| Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One is an advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR), four examples of which are in commercial operation in Japan, with another under construction there and two in Taiwan.
		In Japan, the first two ABWRs, Kashiwazaki Kariwa-6 & 7, have been operating since 1996 and are expected to have a 60 year life.
		To complement this ABWR Hitachi has completed systems design for three more of the same type - 600, 900 and 1700 MWe versions of the 1350 MWe design.
	www.world-nuclear.org /info/printable_information_papers/inf08print.htm (3911 words)

	Power Online News for power industry professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The ESBWR evolved from GE's 1,350-megawatt Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR), which the NRC certified for U.S. construction in 1997.
		The ABWR is a design that has already been proven with more than 18 reactor years of operating data from plants completed in Japan in the mid-to-late 1990s.
		The ESBWR is considered to be an "evolutionary" design because while it incorporates much of the ABWR's key and proven design features, including its advanced digital monitoring and controls technology and advanced construction techniques, it also incorporates new technology advances.
	www.poweronline.com /content/news/article.asp?docid={CEAAF774-CE42-4683-826D-096F178189CE} (644 words)

	AnnexI
		Two ABWRs are operating at TEPCO's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa site, and deployment programmes are underway for 10 more ABWR units in Japan.
		Future ABWRs are expected to achieve a significant reduction in generation costs relative to the first ABWRs.
		In addition, a development programme was started in 1991 for ABWR-II, aiming to further improve and evolve the ABWR, with the goal of significant reduction in power generation cost relative to a standardized ABWR.
	www-pub.iaea.org /MTCD/publications/PDF/cnpp2003/CNPP_Webpage/pages/AnnexI/AnnexI.htm (7271 words)

	World Nuclear Association \| News \| US DOE Press Release \| October 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The overall conclusion of this cost and schedule study is that two ABWR nuclear units can be constructed at the Bellefonte site on a 40 month schedule for each reactor.
		The engineering, procurement and construction cost for the two units is $1611/KW for the 1371MWe certified ABWR plant design that incorporates some technology advancements developed during the Japanese and Lungmen ABWR construction.
		This estimate should establish an upper bound for the cost of a new nuclear power plant since the newer passive reactor designs are expected to be simplified and more economical to build.
	www.world-nuclear.org /news/tva-abwr.htm (381 words)

	Asia Times Online Community and News Discussion - Where did nuke's booming come from in USA ?
		I care, Toshiba Corp completed the first ABWR type Kashiwazaki Kariha nuclear power station unit 6, Japan in Nov 1996 and Toshiba Corp wanted to sell ABWR to the World by mind-control as sooner as it could.
		So, Toshiba Corp gets a big last chance to win with 3rd generation reactor ABWR although there are 69 PWRs and 35 BWRs - all are 2nd generation reactors - now in USA.
		Toshiba Corp got a feasibility study contract for ABWR at Bellefonte site, Alabama, USA from Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) unofficially maybe on Jan 22, 2004 under the name of GE.
	forum.atimes.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=693 (889 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Department of Energy Announces Study of Advanced..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This study, which will cost a total of $4.25 million over the next 10 months, will help TVA decide whether to build a new, advanced technology nuclear plant at the site by the middle of the next decade, which could produce more than 2600 megawatts of electric energy.
		This technology is a Generation III nuclear power plant that is based on a design developed by General Electric and was certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 1997.
		While no plant using this technology has been built in the United States, three ABWR plants are successfully operating in Japan and three additional units are under construction in Japan and Taiwan.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=131-05242004 (646 words)

	Nuclear Engineering International: China ponders ABWR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The deputy director of the Preparatory Office of the State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation of China said in a speech on 21 June that China would likely buy an ABWR from General Electric (GE).
		Xu said that China was looking at GE's ABWR as an option.
		When asked during the questionand-answer session following his speech how soon China might buy the ABWR, Xu dodged the question and instead talked about how busy China was going to be putting online an average of three reactors annually and how the country looked forward to working with its international partners.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3829/is_200507/ai_n14823028 (329 words)

	Future glows for U.S. nuclear power
		In another example, a single Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) by GE Nuclear Energy could be built in the United States for $1,445 per kilowatt.
		GE also is developing a passively safe design it expects to have a first cost about 20% lower than the ABWR.
		In 2002, the Electric Power Research Institute forecast the amount of new nuclear capacity that would be built as a function of cost per kilowatt capacity: At $1,250 per kilowatt, 23,000 MW of new nuclear capacity would be built by 2020.
	www.plantservices.com /articles/2005/452.html?SESSID=6c9a7244db91dbcb1bbf45614bf70816 (604 words)

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