Investor Presentaiton
NEA
Nuclear Energy Agency
ABWR Development and Licensing
OECD
• The development of the ABWR started in 1978 as an international-
cooperation between five BWR vendors.
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- The ABWR was included in the third standardization programme
of Japan from 1981, carried out by Toshiba, Hitachi and GE with
six Japanese utility and Japanese government.
- From 1987 GE, Hitachi and Toshiba started project engineering
and preparation of licensing for Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 6&7.
- In Sep. 1987, GE applied for certification of the US ABWR
standard design. USNRC adopted as final design certification rule
for the US ABWR design in May 1997.
Both Toshiba and GE-Hitachi have applied separately to NRC for
design certification renewal. In 2011, the NRC certified for GE-
Hitachi an evolved version. Hitachi was also developing 600, 900
and 1700 MWe versions of the ABWR.
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