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Conference Article: The high temperature reactor (HTR) and the new German safety concept for future nuclear power plants

Abstract

In Germany, a new law demands new safety properties for future nuclear power reactors. Nuclear reactors must be constructed in a way that even in the most unlikely accidents people in the vicinity do not have to leave their homes, i.e. the consequences must remain limited to the plant itself. This demand may be met by different technical solutions. One of these is the High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor with spherical fuel elements as it has been developed and used for more than 20 years in Germany. The consequences of the new legal situation as well as some implications for the transfer of this nuclear power technology to developing countries are discussed.

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Reference:

Specialists meeting on graphite moderator lifecycle behaviour. Bath (United Kingdom). 24-27 Sep 1995.

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)

IAEA-TECDOC--901, pp:57-68