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Conference Article: Operating Experience with the Dragon High Temperature Reactor Experiment

R. A. Simon, DRAGON Operation Branch/EC (retired), Belgium and P. D. Capp, DRAGON Operations Branch/UKAEA (retired), United Kingdom

Abstract

The Dragon Reactor Experiment in Winfrith /UK was a materials test facility for a number of HTR projects pursued in the sixties and seventies of the last century. It was built and managed as an OECD/NEA international joint undertaking. The reactor operated successfully between 1964 and 1975 to satisfy the growing demand for irradiation testing of fuels and fuel elements as well as for technological tests of components and materials. The paper describes the reactor’s main experimental features and presents results of 11 years of reactor operation relevant for future HTRs.

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key words: Gas Cooled Reactor, Nuclear Technology
Reference:
Proceedings of the Conference on High Temperature Reactors, Petten, NL, April 22-24, 2002
Organized by HTR-TN in cooperation with the European Nucler Society (ENS) and the IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
HTR-2002, pp:1-6