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142 CHAPTER 12 Pressurized water reactors
FIG. 12.2
A typical PWR reactor vessel.
Courtesy of Westinghouse Electric Company (Westinghouse Electric Company, The Westinghouse Pressurized
Water Reactor Nuclear Power Plant, Westinghouse Electric Company, Water Reactor Division, Pittsburgh, 1984).
rate of 1gpm (63ml/s) [2]. The pressurizer has two power-operated relief valves and
three self-actuating safety valves.
The water in the pressurizer is the only free surface in the primary coolant system.
At full power the pressurizer contains 60% of its volume full of water. Changes in
