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BWR

British  

abbreviation

  1. boiling-water reactor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This spring, the firm’s parent company, Burson Cohn & Wolfe, shut down BWR Public Relations, moving staffers or laying them off.

From Seattle Times

Nine reactors have been restarted, all of them pressurized water reactors located far from Tokyo, while the stigma of Fukushima still hangs over use of the older BWR technology.

From Reuters

Nine reactors have restarted, all of them pressurized water reactors located far from Tokyo, while the stigma of Fukushima still hangs over use of the older BWR technology.

From Reuters

Here’s BWR’s top 10 from its list of 46 countries.

From Forbes

Similar to the PWR, the BWR used essentially the same solid fuel.

From Forbes