What Are the Design Flaws in Boiling Water vs. Pressurized Water Reactors?

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Except that they are boiling water vs pressurized water. I am interested to know if there were design flaws.
 
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e.coli said:
Except that they are boiling water vs pressurized water. I am interested to know if there were design flaws.

Depending upon your degree of sophistication, you can look up Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor on Wiki and read it.
 

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