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Re:Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor by acidburnNSA on Monday August 22, 2022 @03:44PM (#32556247)
> Only in the more primitive reactor designs (BWR, Boiling Water Reactor).

TRIGGERED :).

The BWR was developed after the PWR specifically to be more economical for terrestrial large-scale power generation. The PWR was designed to be compact and to work on a submarine. So the BWR is the more advanced design for power plants, arguably.

https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html#the-developme...

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