HTR-10
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Units operational | 10 MW |
HTR-10 is a 10 MWt prototype
Two HTR-PM reactors, scaled up versions of the HTR-10 with 250-MWt capacity, were installed at the Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Rongcheng in Shandong Province and achieved first criticality in September 2021.
Development
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HTR-10 is a pebble-bed high-temperature gas reactor utilizing spherical fuel elements with ceramic coated fuel particles. The reactor core has a diameter of 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in), a mean height of 1.97 metres (6 ft 6 in) and the volume of 5.0 cubic metres (180 cu ft), and is surrounded by graphite reflectors. The core is composed of 27,000 fuel elements. The fuel elements use low enriched uranium with a design mean burn up of 80,000 MWd/t. The pressure of the primary helium coolant circuit is 3.0 megapascals (440 psi).[4]
See also
References
- ^ HTR-10, Tsinghua University, 2010, archived from the original on 2011-09-28, retrieved 2023-02-27
- ^ Hu, Shouyin; Wang, Ruipian; Gao, Zuying (2004), "Safety Demonstration Tests On HTR-10", Proceedings of the Conference on High Temperature Reactors, Beijing, China: 1–16, archived from the original on 2011-07-25, retrieved 2010-04-26
- IAEA. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ a b "The High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor Test Module Core Physics Benchmarks; from google (htr-10 fuel) result 3" (PDF). 2002.
- ^ Key components of second HTR-PM reactor connected WNN, 25 March 2020
External links
- Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom article at Wired News.
- April 2014: presentation given to the IAEA: HTR Progress in China