Companies with boiling-water reactors similar to the ones in Japan include Exelon Corp.
The reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi are called boiling-water reactors (BWRs) and were manufactured by General Electric.
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Thus, the frog-in-the-pot-of-boiling-water phenomena would appear to be the operative strategy at play.
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Executives have been pressing officials in China to include GE's advanced boiling-water reactors in their next five-year economic plan (China uses the pressurized reactors championed by perennial GE rival Westinghouse, now part of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.).
There are a number of different reactors in use, most commonly water-cooled pressurised or boiling water reactors - though other reactor types are kept cool with the help of liquid metal, gas or molten salt.
Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.
These days it has managed to persuade Indians to stop boiling their otherwise undrinkable tap water and instead use a now-ubiquitous water purifier known as "Aquaguard, " which has a 75% market share.
It's on the farm of Gunnar Ingvarsson, the 74-year-old who decided 20 years ago to tap the boiling hot water spewing out of the ground.
Morris was enormously good-natured despite hideous scars on his right arm (the result of boiling water scalding it when he was a youngster) and having to wear a wooden leg (the result of a carriage accident).
Atoms of elements with boiling points below the temperature of a particular plate pass over it, just as water runs over a warm river-bed.
But eventually, each atom encounters a plate at a temperature lower than its boiling point, at which point it sticks to the plate, just as water freezes when poured on to dry-ice.
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