Development Status and Operational Features of the High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor. Final Report

Download or read book Development Status and Operational Features of the High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor. Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study is to investigate the maturity of HTR-technology and to look out for possible technical problems, concerning introduction of large HTR power plants into the market. Further state and problems of introducing and closing the thorium fuel cycle is presented and judged. Finally, the state of development of advanced HTR-concepts for electricity production, the direct cycle HTR with helium turbine, and the gas-cooled fast breeder is discussed. In preparing the study, both HTR concepts with spherical and block-type fuel elements have been considered.