In a boiling water reactor like those at Fukushima, the same water that cools the reactor core also boils and drives the turbine to generate power.

在像福岛核电厂的沸水反应堆中，冷却反应堆芯的水还拿来煮沸，以此推动涡轮机旋转从而产生电量。

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Now the next slide gives you a simple version of a boiling water reactor, a schematic.

现在，下一张幻灯片会给你们一个简单的，关于沸水反应堆的原理图的版本。

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And I wanna focus in on the boiling water reactor and the pressurised water reactor.

我想要着重在沸水反应堆，也压水式反应堆。

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Because this was a reactor that operated on water that was already at its boiling point, this also meant that the pressure inside the reactor was rising as well.

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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.

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