Boston, MA 09/17/2014 (wallstreetpr) – The General Electric Company (NYSE:GE)’s unit, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy recently announced that the U.S. NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) gave a green signal to its products called Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR). Interestingly, ESBWR is acclaimed as the safest reactor of the world.
Design certification Approval Benefits
In context with the approval of design, the President & Chief Executive Officer of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Caroline Reda said that by getting the certification of the design, the company will be in a position to make the safest reactor of the world come to life. She added that the certification will offer a lot of advantages to the customers in the U.S. Apart from this; Ms. Reda said that it would be possible for the company to take ESBWR to a new, advanced and commercial level at a global platform.
NRC’s Acknowledgement of Safety
The approval of design and receiving certification from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission underscores that it acknowledges and vouches the safety as well as regulatory requirements of ESBWR design. The certification of ESBWR final design rule will also be available in the Federal Register by September end.
ESBWR Features
The Boiling Water Reactor designed by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy encompasses some of the advanced safety systems as well as simplified mechanism through natural circulation process. The attributes like these, in a reactor allow it to cool on its own for over a week, even if the operator does not intervene. For all these characteristics and many more, this is not just company-acclaimed, but also the U.S. NRC-approved safest nuclear reactor design of the world.
At present, there are two license applications related to the technology of this reactor, pending with U.S.NRC. Dominion Virginia Power had also chosen the technology used in ESBWR for the North Anna Unit 3 plant, in the previous year.
