Pressurized Water Reactor/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Pressurized Water Reactor.

A nuclear power reactor in which the heat of fission affects water in a primary loop, which is piped to a heat exchanger that generates steam in a secondary loop that drives the turbine; water in the primary but not the secondary loop is radioactive