European pressurized water reactor (EPR) - an advanced LWR to fit the needs of European utilities

Conference · Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:549103

Teichel, H ^[1]; Pouget-Abadie, X ^[2]

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1. PreussenElektra Aktiengesellschaft, Hannover (Germany)
2. Electricite de France, Villeurbanne (France)

The European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) is a project for the development of an advanced PWR pursued by Electricite de France and the major German utilities (RWEE, PreussenElektra, BAG et. al.) together with SIEMENS, Framatome and their common subsidiary NPI. In this project, the experience gained through the design, the erection, the commissioning and the operation of the existing PWR in France and Germany are combined and the existing technical solutions were carefully checked before adopted for the EPR. The deep involvement of the future operators since the beginning of the project guarantees an optimized operational behaviour and easy maintainability. 1 fig., 1 tab.

• OSTI ID: 549103
• Report Number(s): CONF-970607-Vol.1; TRN: 98:000378
• Resource Relation: Conference: ARS `97: American Nuclear Society (ANS) international meeting on advanced reactors safety, Orlando, FL (United States), 1-5 Jun 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the international topical meeting on advanced reactors safety: Volume 1; PB: 640 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
PWR TYPE REACTORS
DESIGN
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
FRENCH ORGANIZATIONS
GERMAN FR ORGANIZATIONS