How to pronounce “light water” in English

It's still a light water reactor, exactly.

It's conventional light water uranium reactors, which is basically 40 year old technology.

- So first of all they were trying to buy a light water reactor from the Europeans or the Chinese in the 1990s.

reactor literally couldn't meltdown so there are some light water reactors that have some of those safety characteristics what we call passive safety

But even there-- But it's still a pressurized light water.

And put tremendous pressure on China to prevent them from selling them a light water reactor, a turnkey reactor that produces waste that's so polluted

And while China is doing its best to build out a lot of light water reactors and sort of first generation nuclear power plants,

Alvin Weinberg is a guy who patented-- or was co-patentor-- of the light water reactor that was used originally in Rickover's submarine, and today

Thereafter, Weinberg-- the guy who invented the light water reactor-- also was the director of Oak Ridge

There is no-- you know, a current light water reactor is pressurized to, maybe, 150 atmospheres of pressure.

and cheaper to build, than light water reactors?

And it turns out you can fingerprint the source of water by the ratio of the heavy to light water isotopes that you see.

Now, that kind of rings a bell when you think about light water reactors in the United States.

All the rules and regulations of the NRC are very specific to the light water reactors we have.

Back in 1990, Robin Cowan, who is a professor at the University of Strasbourg, wrote, "While an appropriate decision at the time, it now seems that light water reactors" --in other