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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"high temperature gas cooled reactors"”.
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Design for Cost Methodology Applied to High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
… an order of magnitude cheaper than competitor’s “high performance” rocket systems, the Ferraris, but achieving the same basic transport requirements with greater reliability and safety. Before Falcon, space launch was a Ferrari-like industry, with handmade, highly specialized, extremely expensive …
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Multi-physics and technical analysis of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors for hydrogen production
… to ease the increasing environmental concerns. High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors have several desirable features that make them ideal candidates for the near-future large-scale deployment. Some of these features are a high temperature and high thermal cycle efficiency, which enable a wide …
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Investigation of MELCOR and STAR-CCM+ modeling capabilities to accurately predict air ingress rates from small breaks in high temperature gas-cooled reactors
In a High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR), the study of postulated accident scenarios is necessary for licensing, deployment, and public perception. One specific scenario of concern is the air ingress following a primary loop break. Recent research has determined that small breaks are more …
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Physics-Based 3D Multi-Directional Reloading Algorithm for Deep Burn HTR Prismatic Block Systems
… of Transuranic (TRU) nuclides in nuclear reactors. Due to favorable performance characteristics, multiple studies are focused on transmutation options using High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGRs). Prismatic HTGRs allow for 3-Dimensional (3D) fuel shuffling and prior shuffling …
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Impact of nuclear data libraries for criticality calculation of HTGR
… libraries affect criticality calculation for High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGR). Accurate nuclear data is essential for reactor safety analysis. However, previous studies have reported significant differences in calculated keff for HTGR systems when different nuclear data libraries …
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Scaling Analysis for the Direct Reactor Auxiliary Cooling System for AHTRs
The Advanced High Temperature Reactor (AHTR) is one of the advanced rector concepts that have been proposed for Gen IV reactors. The AHTR combines four main proven nuclear technologies, namely, the liquid salt of molten salt reactors, the coated particle fuel (TRISO particle) of high-temperature …
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Radiation Shielding Design and Radioactive Waste Assessment of Horizontal Compact High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor
… that nuclear power plants utilizing small High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors (HTGRs) can provide economic, environmentally favorable and reliable electricity and heat for community and industrial purposes, Boston Atomics LLC initiated the design of Horizontal Compact HTGR (HC-HTGR). This …
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A reactor physics framework to detect anomalies in HTGR core
… analysis as a tool for detecting anomalies in High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGRs). Neutron noise is defined as the fluctuations in the neutron detector signal caused by perturbations in a nuclear reactor. Neutron noise analysis is performed by obtaining the neutron flux signals in the …
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High Temperature Corrosion Studies of Metallic Materials in High Temperature Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor Helium Environment
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