Nuclear Reactors: Generation to Generation
List of Acronyms
| ABWR | Advanced Boiling Water Reactor |
| ACR | Advanced CANDU Reactor |
| AECL | Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. |
| AFPR | Atoms for Peace Reactor |
| AES | AÐC, Russian, Atomic Power Station |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| ANTARES | AREVA – New Technology based on Advanced gas-cooled REactorS |
| APR | Advanced Power Reactor |
| APWR | Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor |
| ARC | Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC |
| B&W | Babcock & Wilcox |
| BWR | boiling water reactor |
| CANDU | CANada Deuterium Uranium Reactor |
| CNNC | China National Nuclear Corporation |
| CNP | China’s Nuclear Power Reactor Series |
| COL | combined construction and operating license |
| CPR | Chinese Pressurized Water Reactor |
| DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
| EBR-I | Experimental Breeder Reactor-1 |
| EDF | Électricité de France |
| ENHS | Encapsulated Nuclear Heat-Source Reactor |
| EPR | European Pressurized Reactor |
| ESBWR | Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor |
| FBR | fast breeder reactor |
| FBTR | Fast Breeder Test Reactor |
| GA | General Atomics |
| GE | General Electric |
| GEH | GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy |
| GEN I | generation I reactor |
| GEN II | generation II reactor |
| GEN III | generation III reactor |
| GEN III+ | generation III+ reactor |
| GEN IV | generation IV reactor |
| GWe | gigawatt electric |
| HPM | Hyperion Power Module |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IRIS | International Reactor Innovative and Secure |
| JSW | Japan Steel Works |
| KNGR | Korean Next Generation Reactor |
| KSNP | Korean Standard Nuclear Power Plant |
| kWe | one thousand watts of electric |
| kWh | kilowatt hour |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| LFR | lead-cooled fast reactor |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| LWR | light water reactor |
| MHI | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
| MHR | Modular Helium Reactor |
| MOX | mixed oxide |
| MPa | megapascal |
| MW | megawatt |
| MWe | megawatts electric |
| NGNP | Next Generation Nuclear Plant |
| NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| OPR | Optimized Power Reactor |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| PB-AHTR | Pebble Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor |
| PBMR | Pebble Bed Modular Reactor |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| PRISM | Power Reactor Innovative Small Module |
| PWR | pressurized water reactor |
| SmAHTR | Small Modular Advanced High Temperature Reactor |
| SMR | small modular reactor |
| SNPTC | State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (China) |
| SSTAR; SSTAR-H2 and SSTAR-LM | Small, Sealed, Transportable, Autonomous Reactor of many coolants—two potential coolants are hydrogen and liquid metal |
| TWR | Traveling Wave Reactor |
| UO2 | uranium dioxide |
| VVER | Vodo-Vodyanoi Energetichesky Reactor |