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IAEA-TECDOC--1210: Safety related design and economic aspects of HTGR

Proceedings of a Technical Committee Meeting held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 2-4 November 1998

International Atomic Energy Agency, International Working Group on Gas-Cooled Reactors, Vienna (Austria), IAEA-TECDOC--1210

Abstract

The HTGR, as a nuclear heat source for the safe, economic and efficient production of electricity and high temperature industrial processes has, within the past few years, become a significantly increasing influence in the future of nuclear power. Nuclear test facilities with the capability of achieving core outlet temperatures to 950 deg. C are presently under construction in the People's Republic of China and Japan. These plants will be utilized to support HTGR research and development activities including electricity generation via the gas turbine and validation of high temperature process heat applications. Also, major development programmes focusing on the generation of electricity through the direct cycle gas turbine are in progress by ESKOM, the state electric utility of South Africa, and by a consortium of organizations from the Russian Federation, USA, France and Japan. Other national programmes focusing on research and development of the HTGR are underway including the Netherlands, where an evaluation is being completed on a heat and power co-generation plant utilizing a small direct cycle HTR; in Germany, where the primary focus is centered on basic issues of reactor safety and innovative reactor technology; in Indonesia with the evaluation of process heat applications such as coal liquefaction, hydrogen production and high temperature reforming of methane; and in the USA with the recent reintroduction of national support for the HTGR specifically directed to the burning of weapons plutonium.

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