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Conference Article: Power Conversion Unit With Direct Gas-Turbine Cycle For Electric Power Generation As A Part Of GT-MHR Reactor Plant

V.I. Kostin, N.G. Kodochigov, A.V. Vasyaev, V.F. Golovko, OKBM, Nizhny Novgorod, RUSSIA

Abstract

By the early 1990s the operation experience of more than 50 gas-cooled reactors on carbon-dioxide gas and helium, achievements in the equipment technology of gas turbines, high-effective reccuperators, electromagnetic bearings permitted to consider the development of reactor plant design combining safe modular gas-cooled reactor and power conversion unit (PCU) realizing a high-effective Brayton cycle as real one. This concept is developed within the limits of Russian-American Project of a demonstration plant with modular helium reactor of 600 MW capacity and the helium temperature at the reactor outlet of 850 C with gas turbine (GT-MHR) intended to generate electric power high-effectively /Fig.1/. GT-MHR is a perspective power reactor plant of the next generation.

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key words: Gas Cooled Reactor, Nuclear Technology
Reference:
Proceedings of the Conference on High Temperature Reactors, Beijing, China, September, 22-24, 2004
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
HTR-2004, pp:1-12