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    A high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which uses uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high...
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  • types of reactor cooled by gas, the terms GCR and to a lesser extent gas cooled reactor are particularly used to refer to this type of reactor. The GCR...
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    initial development of the High temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), as well as the Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GCFR) system. Gas-cooled projects (thermal spectrum)...
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  • were: the gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR), the lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR), the molten salt reactor (MSR), the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), the...
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    pebble-bed reactor (PBR) is a design for a graphite-moderated, gas-cooled nuclear reactor. It is a type of very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR), one...
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  • Thumbnail for Advanced gas-cooled reactor
    advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) is a type of nuclear reactor designed and operated in the United Kingdom. These are the second generation of British gas-cooled...
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    Station High temperature gas-cooled reactors (in development or construction) Pebble-bed reactor Very high temperature reactor Prismatic fuel reactor UHTREX...
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  • Thumbnail for Small modular reactor
    first of its kind in the world. China's pebble-bed modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor HTR-PM was connected to the grid in 2021. The term was brought...
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  • Thumbnail for Dragon reactor
    Dragon was an experimental high temperature gas-cooled reactor at Winfrith in Dorset, England, operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority...
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  • Thumbnail for Sodium-cooled fast reactor
    sodium-cooled fast reactor is a fast neutron reactor cooled by liquid sodium. The initials SFR in particular refer to two Generation IV reactor proposals...
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  • liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor, or LMR is a type of nuclear reactor where the primary coolant is a liquid metal. Liquid metal cooled reactors were first...
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    reactor, Idaho Future FBR, India, 600 MWe, after 2025 Energy amplifier Fast breeder reactor Gas-cooled fast reactor Generation IV reactor Lead-cooled...
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  • use in a fusion reactor both as a primary coolant and to breed Tritium fuel for D-T reactors. The HTR-PM is a high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) pebble-bed...
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    that use a molten salt for cooling only (fluoride high-temperature reactors) and still have a solid fuel. Molten salt reactors, as a class, include both...
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  • Thumbnail for Lead-cooled fast reactor
    The lead-cooled fast reactor is a nuclear reactor design that uses molten lead or lead-bismuth eutectic coolant. These materials can be used as the primary...
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  • reactor, enabling it to reduce nuclear waste considerably by transmutation. Gas-cooled fast reactor Pebble bed reactor Very high temperature reactor "GT-MHR...
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  • HTR-PM (category Small modular reactor)
    a Chinese small modular nuclear reactor. It is a high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) pebble-bed generation IV reactor evolved from the HTR-10 prototype...
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    criticality of the nuclear reactor. The water heated in the reactor core becomes a supercritical fluid above the critical temperature of 374 °C (705 °F), transitioning...
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  • X-energy (redirect from Xe-100 reactor)
    nuclear reactor and fuel design engineering company. It is developing a Generation IV high-temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed nuclear reactor design. It...
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    world. Gas cooled thermal reactor - Includes the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor, the gas cooled fast breeder reactor, and the high temperature gas cooled reactor...
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  • water gas shift reaction is conducted in multiple adiabatic stages consisting of a high temperature shift (HTS) followed by a low temperature shift (LTS)...
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  • Thumbnail for Thorium-based nuclear power
    Several other types of reactors were constructed, such as the Liquid metal cooled reactors like EBR-I, or gas-cooled reactors such as Peach Bottom Unit...
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    Gas-cooled fast reactor Lead-cooled fast reactor Molten-salt reactor Sodium-cooled fast reactor Supercritical water reactor Very-high-temperature reactor...
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    HTR-10 (category Pebble bed reactors)
    HTR-10 is a 10 MWt prototype high-temperature gas-cooled, pebble-bed reactor at Tsinghua University in China. Construction began in 1995, achieving its...
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    the hole and gas is discharged together with the melt with a rapid decrease of pressure inside the reactor vessel; the high temperature of the melt also...
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    higher temperatures. In this respect an MSR is more similar to a liquid metal cooled reactor than to a conventional light water cooled reactor. MSR designs...
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  • Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations with reactors under construction)
    has the first fourth-generation nuclear reactors in the world: the HTR-PM, a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) concept (36°58′45″N 122°31′50″E...
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    production of radioisotopes; high-temperature gas-cooled reactor irradiations; and irradiation of candidate fusion reactor materials. The latter type of...
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    so that the emergency core cooling system may be turned on). In a depressurization fault, a gas-cooled reactor loses gas pressure within the core, reducing...
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  • The high-temperature engineering test reactor (HTTR) is a graphite-moderated gas-cooled research reactor in Ōarai, Ibaraki, Japan operated by the Japan...
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