Editing Boiling water reactor (section)

=== Advanced boiling water reactor===
[[File:UK ABWR cross section.png|thumb|upright=1.5|Cross section of UK ABWR design Reinforced Concrete Containment Vessel]]
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A newer design of BWR is known as the [[advanced boiling water reactor]] (ABWR). The ABWR was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and has been further improved to the present day. The ABWR incorporates advanced technologies in the design, including computer control, plant automation, control rod removal, motion, and insertion, in-core pumping, and nuclear safety to deliver improvements over the original series of production BWRs, with a high power output (1350&nbsp;MWe per reactor), and a significantly lowered probability of core damage. Most significantly, the ABWR was a completely standardized design, that could be made for series production.<ref name="ABWR fact sheet">{{cite web|author1=GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy|author-link1=GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy|title=Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) fact sheet|url=https://nuclear.gepower.com/content/dam/gepower-nuclear/global/en_US/documents/product-fact-sheets/ABWR%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|access-date=20 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002085218/https://nuclear.gepower.com/content/dam/gepower-nuclear/global/en_US/documents/product-fact-sheets/ABWR%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|archive-date=October 2, 2015|date=2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ABWR was approved by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission for production as a standardized design in the early 1990s. Subsequently, numerous ABWRs were built in Japan. One development spurred by the success of the ABWR in Japan is that General Electric's nuclear energy division merged with Hitachi Corporation's nuclear energy division, forming [[GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy]], which is now the major worldwide developer of the BWR design.