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High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors and the potentional market of 700 reactor modules
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Westinghouse and others are pursuing the development of a true next-generation nuclear technology referred to as the High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HTGR) for the past few years. Without too much technical detail, HTGRs are helium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors with robust ceramic-coated fuel that operate at temperatures at or above 750 Degrees Celsius (1400 Fahrenheit) where conventional light water reactors operate at temperatures less than half that. In short:
* The design is intrinsically safe. It requires neither active or passive systems nor operator interventions to remain safe, thereby allowing co-location near major industrial facilities.
* High temperature output that allow direct substitution for fossil fuel use in industrial process heat applications.
* Much higher efficiency leading to lower energy cost, making it competitive with natural gas in many places of the world today without any price for carbon.
There are current HTGR operational demonstrations in Japan and China
See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at 2012-11-09 01:23:14 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/11/high-temperature-gas-cooled-reactors.html
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