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NRC: Metadata definitions for the NRC - U.S. Commerical Nuclear Power Reactors

Metadata definitions for U.S. Commerical Nuclear Power Reactors

Location: Plant Information Data Sheet (Microsoft Excel format)

See also the Information Digest, 2009–2010 (NUREG-1350, Volume 21).

B&W - Babcock & Wilcox
BECH - Bechtel
BRRT -  Brown & Root
BWR - boiling -water reactor
CE - Combustion Engineering
COMM. OP - commercial operation
CON TYPE - containment type
  DRYAMB dry - ambient pressure
  DRYSUB dry, subatmospheric
  HTG - high -temperature gas -cooled (reactor)
  ICECND - wet, ice condenser
  LMFB - liquid metal fast breeder (reactor)
  MARK 1 -  wet, Mark I
  MARK 2 - wet, Mark II
  MARK 3 - wet, Mark III
CP - construction permit
CWE - Commonwealth Edison Company
DANI - Daniel International
DBDB - Duke & Bechtel
DOE - Department of Energy
DUKE - Duke Power Company
EIA - Energy Information Administration (DOE)
EBSO - Ebasco
FLUR - Fluor Pioneer
G&H - Gibbs & Hill
GE - General Electric
GHDR - Gibbs & Hill & Durham & Richardson
GPC - Georgia Power Company
JONES - J.A. Jones
KAIS - Kaiser Engineers
LLP - B&W Lowered Loop
MW - megawatts
MWe - megawatts electrical
MWt - megawatts thermal
NIAG - Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
NRC - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NSP - Northern States Power Company
NSSS - nuclear steam system supplier & design type
  GE 1 - GE Type 1
  GE 2 - GE Type 2
  GE 3 - GE Type 3
  GE 4 - GE Type 4
  GE 5 - GE Type 5
  GE 6 - GE Type 6
  WEST 2LP - Westinghouse Two -Loop
  WEST 3LP - Westinghouse Three -Loop
  WEST 4LP - Westinghouse Four -Loop
OL - operating license
PG&E - Pacific Gas & Electric Company
PSE - Pioneer Services & Engineering
PSEG - Public Service Electric and Gas Company
PUBS - Public Service Electric & Gas Company
PWR - pressurized -water reactor
RLP - B&W Raised Loop
S&L - Sargent & Lundy
S&W - Stone & Webster
SSI - Southern Services Incorporated
STP - South Texas Project
TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority
UE&C - United Engineers & Constructors
WEST - Westinghouse Electric
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