Ok I know there are something like 7 or 8 CE Reactors in the country, Waterford, one of the ANO Units, St Lucie, Palisades, one of the Millstones and Palo Verde.
NOw if I recall corectly CE plants are somewhat similar to BW plants in that they use 2 Loops with one hot leg, one SG, and two cold legs with one RCP per cold leg. And the difference is CE plants use U Tube SGs vice OTSGS, and they use the Westnghouse philosophy of programming Tave.
NOW my question... Most of the CE plants have about the same Thermal Rating, but the Palo Verde plants are quite a lot larger. What physically is different at Palo Verde? Westinghouse added more loops when they uprated the power for their family of reactors. Do the Palo Verde plants have larger cores and more loops?
Mike