AP1000® Pressurized Water Reactor
Shaping Tomorrow’s Energy with the AP1000 PWR. Superior safety. Simplified design.
The established design of the AP1000® reactor offers three distinct advantages over other designs:
- Unequaled safety
- Economic competitiveness
- Improved and more efficient operations
Our Gen III+ AP1000 reactor has set the new industry standard for PWR thanks to our simplified, innovative, and effective approach to safety. This revolutionary technology is the result of over 60 years of successful operating nuclear power plant experience, leveraging enhanced versions of equipment found in currently operating Westinghouse-designed PWRs.
Several of the key AP1000 reactor advantages over other technology including:
- Compacted footprint
- Reduction in component and construction materials
- Reduction in work hours to build
- Modular construction
With four units setting records in full commercial operation, the AP1000 reactor represents the most advanced technology available today, able to supply over 1 GW of electricity to centralized power grids.
Simplification was a major design objective for the AP1000 reactor. The simplified plant design includes overall safety systems, normal operating systems, the control room, construction techniques, and instrumentation and control systems. The innovative AP1000 reactor design features: fewer safety-related valves, less safety-related piping, less control cable, fewer pumps, less seismic building volume.
