Potential of Light Water Reactors for Future Nuclear Power Plants

摘要

You may wonder why I want to speak about the potential of light water reactors in a session on "Innovative reactors and their role in the long-term development of nuclear power". It is easy to say: in my analysis, LWRs and Generation IV reactors will largely be complementary. To define the long-term role of innovative reactors one has to take the potential of today's reactor types into account, and vice versa.