...Shoji Takada; Kenji Abe; Yoshiyuki Inagaki The high temperature isolation valve (HTIV) is a key component to assure the safety of a high temperature gas cooled reactor connected with a hydrogen production system for protections of radioactive material release from the reactor to the hydrogen...

...Meng-Jen Wang; Jinn-Jer Peir; Chen-Wei Chi; Jenq-Horng Liang In this study, the multiplication factor and neutron spectrum behaviors were investigated against the moderator-to-fuel ratio, the fuel loading height, and the detector location in high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTR)-10. The MCNP5...

...Zheng Yanhua; Shi Lei Reactivity accident due to inadvertent withdrawal of the control rod is one kind of the design basis accident for high temperature gas-cooled reactors, which should be analyzed carefully in order to validate the reactor inherent safety properties. Based on the preliminary...

...Gyeongho Kim; Dong Ok Kim; Woo-Seok Choi; Ji Ho Kang; Jae Man Noh Graphite blocks are important core components of the high temperature gas-cooled reactor. As these blocks are simply stacked in array, collisions among neighboring components may occur during earthquakes or accidents. Thus...

... for the dispersed gas-cooled fast reactor fuel). Near-future plans for the further development of FAST are outlined. 17 07 2009 20 07 2009 08 07 2010 08 07 2010 gas cooled reactors liquid metal fast breeder reactors nuclear engineering computing transient analysis The fast...

... 2010 06 07 2010 gas cooled reactors sodium stratified flow vortices In order to establish an advanced nuclear fuel cycle system centered around a fast reactor, a feasibility study on the fast reactor cycle and a fast reactor cycle technology development (FaCT) project were...

... control fuel processing industries gas cooled reactors heavy water reactors natural gas technology nuclear power oil technology power generation economics The Canadian oil sands industry has grown tremendously in the past 5 years, and promises to continue in steady growth for decades...

...Chang H. Oh; Eung S. Kim; Mike Patterson The next generation nuclear plant (NGNP), a very high temperature gas-cooled reactor (VHTR) concept, will provide the first demonstration of a closed-loop Brayton cycle at a commercial scale, producing a few hundred megawatts of power in the form...

... volume weighted average. However, the transverse conductivities are more difficult to determine because of the complex shape of the heat conduction paths in these directions. 28 11 2008 17 10 2008 07 10 2009 finite element analysis gas cooled reactors heat transfer...

... , “ Evaluation of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor Performance ,” Draft TECDOC II. OECD , 2005 , “ PBMR Coupled Neutronics/Thermal Hydraulics Transient Benchmark The PBMR-400 Core Design ,” NEA/NSC/Document No. V-03, Sept. 1983 , “ Reactor Core Design of High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors. Part 2...

...Yasuyoshi Kato Three systems have been proposed for advanced high-temperature gas-cooled reactors: a supercritical carbon dioxide ( S-CO 2 ) gas turbine power conversion system, a new microchannel heat exchanger (MCHE), and a once-through-then-out (OTTO) refueling scheme with burnable poison (BP...

...Jae-Young Lee; Sa-Ya Lee The flow visualization in the complicated flow geometry of the pebble bed of the high temperature gas-cooled reactor is investigated to identify the stagnation points at which internal hot spots are expected. A particle image velocimetry method was employed to visualize...

... Gas Cooled Reactor Technology , IAEA , Vienna , pp. 19 – 68 . Takada , S. , Takizuka , T. et al. , 2003 , “ The 1/3-Scale Aerodynamics Performance Test of Helium Compressor for GTHTR300 Turbo Machine of JAERI (STEP1) ,” ICONE11 , Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 20–23. Eff t...