Design procedures of small pebble bed HTGR for electric generation in isolated islands

This paper gives the summary report on the results of the study mentioned above. Two conventional fueling strategies for PBRs, that is, the multipass and the Once-Through-Then-Out (OTTO) fueling schemes were investigated, although the HTR-Module design adopts the multipass scheme. In addition to the two fueling schemes, the recently proposed peu a peu fueling scheme (Teuchert et al., 1991) was also included in the study since it simplifies significantly the fueling mechanism and devices of the reactors. Furthermore, despite the HTR-Module design uses only uranium fuel cycles, for sake of completion of the work, both uranium and thorium fuel cycles were considered for each fueling scheme in the present work. (J.P.N.)