Published September 1988
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Journal article
The safety characteristics of the HTR 500 reactor plant
Description
The HTR is a reactor having a passive safety. It is equipped with the usual active engineered safety systems in a simplified form. Due to its inherent safety characteristics and the burst-safe prestressed concrete reactor vessel activity containment is ensured even without the effect of active safety systems. Even in the event of extremely hypothetical accidents the effect on the environment is low enough so that evacuation or relocation of the population is not required. Therefore large-scale damage of agricultural land and industrially used areas is safely ruled out. Thus the site selection for this type of reactor is not restricted i.e. an HTR can be constructed near industrial and urban centers. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Engineering and Design
- Journal Volume
- 109
- Journal Issue
- 1/2
- Series
- Nucl. Eng. Des.
- Journal Page Range
- 307-312
- ISSN
- 0029-5493
- CODEN
- NEDEA
Conference
- Title
- Design, safety and marketing potential.
- Acronym
- Seminar on small and medium sized nuclear reactors
- Dates
- 24-26 Aug 1987.
- Place
- Lausanne (Switzerland).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 20019354
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AFTER-HEAT REMOVAL; CONTAINMENT; DEPRESSURIZATION; HTGR TYPE REACTORS; POWER DENSITY; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR SAFETY; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TRANSIENTS; URBAN AREAS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; REACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; REACTORS; SAFETY