Table 2: Advanced Reactor Designs

1 January 2000

Table 2: Advanced Reactor Designs
Design	Supplier	Features
ABWR	GE	1,350 MWe BWR, design certified by NRC and built and operating in Japan
SWR 1000	Framatome ANP	1,013 MWe BWR, being designed to meet European requirements
ESBWR	GE	1,380 MWe passively safe BWR, under development
AP600	Westinghouse	610 MWe passively safe PWR, design certified by NRC
AP1000	Westinghouse	1,090 MWe PWR with passive safety features Higher capacity version of AP-600, not yet certified
IRIS	Westinghouse	100-300 MWe integral primary system PWR, under development
PBMR	ESKOM	110 MWe modular direct cycle helium-cooled pebble bed reactor, currently planned for construction in South Africa.
GT-MHR	General Atomics	288 MWe modular direct cycle helium-cooled reactor, being licensed for construction in Russia.
Source: Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Generation IV Technology Planning, A Roadmap to Deploy New Nuclear Power Plants in the United States by 2010, Volume I: Summary Report, October 31, 2001, p. v.

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