Components
The key components common to most types of nuclear power plants are:
- Nuclear fuel
- Nuclear reactor core
- Neutron moderator
- Neutron poison
- Neutron howitzer (provides steady source of neutrons to re-initiate reaction following shutdown)
- Coolant (often the Neutron Moderator and the Coolant are the same, usually both purified water)
- Control rods
- Reactor vessel
- Boiler feedwater pump
- Steam generators (not in BWRs)
- Steam turbine
- Electrical generator
- Condenser
- Cooling tower (not always required)
- Radwaste System (a section of the plant handling radioactive waste)
- Refueling Floor
- Spent fuel pool
- Nuclear safety systems
- Reactor Protective System (RPS)
- Emergency Diesel Generators
- Emergency Core Cooling Systems (ECCS)
- Standby Liquid Control System (emergency boron injection, in BWRs only)
- Essential service water system (ESWS)
- Containment building
- Control room
- Emergency Operations Facility
- Nuclear training facility (usually contains a Control Room simulator)
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