What are the typical power densities in conventional boiling water nuclear reactor per cubic centimeter of fission material?
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Without going into the details of it, a conventional BWR gives a power density of $50 kW/liter$ inside the core, which is about half that of PWR.
Mind you, this includes the coolant inside the core and not the fissile material only. ref
answered Apr 7, 2012 at 16:52