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Conference Article: Problems of attracting nuclear energy resources in order to provide economical and rational consumption of fossil fuels

Nazarov, E.K.; Nikitin, A.T.; Ponomarev-Stepnoy, N.N.; Protsenko, A.N.; Stolyarevskii, A.Ya.; Doroshenko, N.A. (State Institute of Nitrogen Industry, Moscow (USSR); I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow (USSR))

Abstract

Depletion of fossil fuels resources and gradual increase in cost of their extraction and transportation to the places of: their consumption put forward into a line of the most urgent tasks the problem of rational and economical utilization of fuel and energy resources as well as introduction of new energy sources into various sectors of national economy. The nuclear energy sources which are widely spread in power engineering have not yet used to a proper extent in the 'sectors of industrial technologies and residential space heating which are the most energy consuming ones In the national economy. The most effective way of solving this problem can be the development and commercialization of high temperature nuclear reactors, as the majority of power consuming industrial processes and those involved in chemico-thermal systems of distant heat transmission demand the temperature of a heat carrier generated by nuclear reactors and assimilated by the above processes to be in the range from 900° to 1000°C.

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key words: feasibility studies; heat exchangers; htgr type reactors; industry; nuclear engineering; nuclear power; power demand; process heat; reactor components; reactor technology; technology assessment
Reference:
Technical committee meeting on gas-cooled reactor technology safety and siting Dimitrovgrad (Russian Federation) 21-23 Jun 1989
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
IAEA-TC--389.26, pp:466-486