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LWR Light-Water Reactor
max maximum
MHI Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan)
MOX Mixed OXide (nuclear fuel)
MSK-64 Medvedev-Sponheuer-Karnik (macroseismic intensity scale)
MSFR Molten-Salt Fast Reactor
MSR Molten-Salt Reactor or Moisture Separator and Reheater
NEA Nuclear Energy Agency
NGNP Next Generation Nuclear Plant
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)
NPP Nuclear Power Plant
NRC National Regulatory Commission (United States)
OBE Operating Basis Earthquake (ground motion)
OD Outside Diameter
PBMR Pebble-Bed Modular Reactor
PCh Pressure Channel (nuclear reactor)
PFBR Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (India)
PHWR Pressurized Heavy-Water Reactor
PT Pressure Tube (nuclear reactor)
PV Pressure Vessel
PWR Pressurized Water Reactor
RBMK reactor of large capacity channel type (in Russian abbreviations)
REFPROP Reference Properties (NIST software)
R&D Research & Development
RPV Reactor Pressure Vessel
rpm revolutions per minute
SC SuperCritical
SCW SuperCritical Water
SCWR SuperCritical Water-cooled Reactor
SFR Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor
SKD Supercritical pressure (in Russian abbreviations)
SMR Small Modular Reactor
SSE Safe Shutdown Earthquake (ground motion)
SVBR lead bismuth fast reactor (in Russian abbreviations)
TRISO tri-isotropic
TWR Traveling Wave Reactor
VHTR very high-temperature reactor
VVER water water power reactor (in Russian abbreviations)
X or x extraction (steam)

4.1 Introduction

The first successful use of nuclear power for electrical generation was achieved in
several countries in the 1950s, and currently, Generation II and III nuclear power
reactors are operating around the world (see Chapter 3). In general, definitions of