The HTR 500 concept
Description
During the past ten years the development of a specific HTR safety concept has made progress. This has been mainly characterized by the abandonment of the LWR specific safety principles and making use of the safety characteristics typical of the high-temperature reactor (HTR). In the design, construction and operation of high- temperature reactors - especially AVR (15 MWe plant in Juelich, FRG) and THTR (300 MWe pant in Hamm-Uentrop, FRG) - experience has been gained in the field of accident topology and plant risk of HTRs in recent years. This paper discusses how this experience, based on accident analyses, is relevant for the entire HTR line independent of specific projects. The HTR 500 is the first commercial high temperature reactor with a pebble bed core
Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- Based on practical THTR and AVR experience
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- American Nuclear Society.
- Imprint Place
- La Grange Park, IL (USA)
- ISBN
- 0-89448-1460
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the international topical meeting on safety of next generation power reactors
- Imprint Pagination
- 935 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 330-337.
Conference
- Title
- American Nuclear Society (ANS) topical meeting on the safety of next generation power reactors.
- Dates
- 1-5 May 1988.
- Place
- Seattle, WA (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22052094
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- HTGR TYPE REACTORS; OPERATION; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; REACTORS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-880506--.