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Design Certification Application Review -
Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor (ESBWR)
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| Who: |
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH)
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| What: |
Application for a Standard Design Certification for the Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor (ESBWR), a 4,500 MWt reactor, which uses natural circulation for normal operation and has passive safety features.
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GEH submitted the Standard Design Certification on August 24, 2005. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) accepted the application for docketing on December 1, 2005.
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For additional detail, see the following topics on this page:
For information on the combined license (COL) application referencing the ESBWR design, please see the Combined License Applications for New Reactors.
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