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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor"”.
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Nonlinear estimation for condition monitoring of advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor cores
As the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations are ageing, the nuclear core composed by graphite bricks can distort. The direct measurement of the core condition is costly and time-consuming, hence, alternative methods have been developed to provide the necessary information about …
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Investigation into the Effect of Physical Size on Crack Initiation in Brittle Materials Subject to Mixed Mode Fracture (With Focus on Graphite Nuclear Reactor Cores)
… a suitable fracture prediction criterion for advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) graphite bricks. In this context size effect is taken to mean the non-constant nature of material properties when specimens are tested at different sizes. The literature shows that typically strength correlates …
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Machine learning techniques for the health monitoring of rotating machinery in nuclear power plants
… used in the primary and secondary cycles of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power plants in the UK. The methods fall broadly into two categories: the statistical augmentation of a pre-existing knowledge-based system for turbine generator vibration alarm analysis, and the development …
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Design Space Exploration for Salt Cooled Reactor Systems
Fluoride salt-cooled Hight-temperature Reactor (FHR) is a new concept that has seen growing interest as a potential candidate to improve on the safety and economics of existing reactors. It has been suggested that FHR can benefit from advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) technologies and by that …
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Consideration of fuel behaviour in AGR-like FHR reactor design
The Fluoride Salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor (FHR) is a subclass of Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) that uses solid fuel separated from the molten coolant salt. Previous work showed that British Advance Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) technology can be used to potentially reduce the time required to …