light-water reactor technical , LWR (abbreviation)

This experience was the first practical step toward light-water reactor.

The deal would provide the North with light-water reactors whose fuel cannot be used for weapons.

It is intended for use at light-water reactors of the companies based in southern and central Japan.

Officials said the plan to build light-water reactors could be scrapped.

Iran is paying Russia more than $1 billion to build the light-water reactor.

Its statement did not explicitly mention construction of the light-water reactor.

North Korea is also thought to be making progress on building a small experimental light-water reactor.

"A light-water reactor cannot be used for developing nuclear weapons," he said during the tour.

Cost estimates from the 1970s were slightly lower than for conventional light-water reactors.

Current light-water reactors require refueling once every several years, the paper said.

"The United States says it cannot give us a light-water reactor no matter what."

They will be light-water reactors, in which ordinary water is used to moderate the nuclear reaction.

"These light-water reactors are simply not on the table."

It's difficult to see how the same kind of thing could occur in Western light-water reactors as some critics claim.

North Korea would start a program to enrich uranium for a light-water reactor, he said.

Without access to the country's light-water reactor, he said it was difficult to make assessments about the condition of the facility.

Washington favors the change because light-water reactors yield less plutonium.

Perhaps light-water reactors would have prevailed in any event.

The financing arrangements for the $5 billion or so to provide the two light-water reactors was also left incomplete.

Light-water reactors are considered better for producing electricity than plutonium.

The light-water reactor would ostensibly provide energy to the resource-poor nation.

North Korea vowed in March to build a light-water reactor.

To make up for poor moderation, a light-water reactor needs fuel enriched in U-235.

Under the agreement, the North would not be given the nuclear components of the first light-water reactor until inspections were carried out.

South Korea has agreed to finance most of the $4 billion project, but only if it supplies the light-water reactors.