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Conference Article: Development History of the Gas Turbine Modular High Temperature Reactor

Abstract

The development of the high temperature gas cooledd reactor (HTGR) as an environmentally agreeable and efficient power source to support the generation of electricity and achieve a broad range of high temperature industrial applications has been an evolutionary process spanning over four decades. This proacess has included on-going major development in both the HTGR as a nuclear energy source and associated power conversion systems from the stream cycle to the gas turbine.
This paper follows the development process progressively through individual plant designs from early research of the 1950s to the present focus on the gas turbine modular HTGR.

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Reference:

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on “Gas Turbine Power Conversion Systems for Modular HTGRs”, held from 14-16 November 2000 in Palo Alto, California

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Technical Working Group on Gas-Cooled Reactors

IAEA-TECDOC--1238, pp:25-49