Editing Boiling water reactor (section)

=== Economic simplified boiling water reactor ===
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During a period beginning in the late 1990s, GE engineers proposed to combine the features of the advanced boiling water reactor design with the distinctive safety features of the simplified boiling water reactor design, along with scaling up the resulting design to a larger size of 1,600&nbsp;[[MWt|MWe]] (4,500&nbsp;MWth). This [[Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor]] (ESBWR) design was submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for approval in April 2005, and design certification was granted by the NRC in September 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/design-cert/esbwr.html|title = Issued Design Certification - Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor (ESBWR)}}</ref>

Reportedly, this design has been advertised as having a [[core damage frequency|core damage probability]] of only 3×10<sup>−8</sup> core damage events per reactor-year.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} That is, there would need to be 3 million ESBWRs operating before one would expect a single core-damaging event during their 100-year lifetimes. Earlier designs of the BWR, the BWR/4, had core damage probabilities as high as 1×10<sup>−5</sup> core-damage events per reactor-year.<ref name="NuclearNews-ESBWR">{{cite journal|last=Hinds|first=David|author2=Maslak, Chris|date=January 2006|title=Next-generation nuclear energy: The ESBWR|journal=Nuclear News|publisher=American Nuclear Society|location=La Grange Park, Illinois, United States of America|volume=49|issue=1|pages=35–40|issn=0029-5574|url=http://www.ans.org/pubs/magazines/nn/docs/2006-1-3.pdf|access-date=2009-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704020922/http://www.ans.org/pubs/magazines/nn/docs/2006-1-3.pdf|archive-date=2010-07-04|url-status=dead}}</ref> This extraordinarily low CDP for the ESBWR far exceeds the other large LWRs on the market.