The AVR reactor. First operational phases
Description
Automatic translation: In 1956, a research team under Prof. Schulten developed a reactor concept with a high temperature resistant spherical fuel assembly. Compared to other reactors this fuel assembly allows higher Temperatures of the coolant and higher burn-up of the Fuel. Helium is used as a coolant. Only through the use of this conception becomes in high Measure an economic use of the available Uranium reserves possible. The concept also enables the non-fissile breeding material thorium 232 into fissile ones Converting fuel to uranium 233 and making it large amounts of non-fissile energy generating material accessible. With the construction of the AVR reactor, the first high-temperature reactor purely German concept, started in 1961. The site of the nuclear research facilities was chosen as the location of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (KFA) in Stebenicher Forst elected at Jülich. The client is the joint venture Experimental reactor (AVR), which was commissioned to build the Experimental nuclear power plant at Brown Boveri / Krupp Reaktorbau GmbH awarded.
Abstract (German)
Im Jahre 1956 entwickelte ein Forschungsteam unter Prof. Schulten ein Reaktor-Konzept mit einem hochtemperaturbeständigen kugelförmigen Brennelement. Im Vergleich zu anderen Reaktoren ermöglicht dieses Brennelement höhere Temperaturen des Kühlmittels und höheren Abbrand des Brennstoffes. Als Kühlmittel wird Helium verwendet. Erst durch die Verwendung dieser Konzeption wird in hohem Maße eine wirtschaftliche Ausnutzung der verfügbaren Uranreserven möglich. Das Konzept ermöglicht darüberhinaus, den nicht-spaltbaren Brutstoff Thorium 232 in spaltbaren Brennstoff Uran 233 umzuwandeln und macht damit große Mengen nicht-spaltbaren Materials der Energieerzeugung zugänglich. Mit dem Bau des AVR-Reaktors, des ersten Hochtemperaturreaktors rein deutscher Konzeption , wurde 1961 begonnen . Als Standort wurde das Gelände der Kernforschungsanlagen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (KFA) im Stetternicher Forst bei Jülich gewählt. Bauherr ist die Arbeitsgemeinscha Versuchsreaktor (AVR), die den Auftrag zur Errichtung des Versuchskernkraftwerks an Brown Boveri/Krupp Reaktorbau GmbH vergab.
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Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Der AVR-Reaktor. Erste Betriebsphasen
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 8 p.
- Report number
- INIS-DE--21M1509
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 53027241
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- AVR REACTOR; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; CONSTRUCTION; COOLANTS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; FUELS; HELIUM; HTGR TYPE REACTORS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; THORIUM 232; URANIUM 233; URANIUM RESERVES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EUROPE; EVALUATION; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FLUIDS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; GASES; GERMAN FR ORGANIZATIONS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HELIUM COOLED REACTORS; HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; HTGR TYPE REACTORS; ISOTOPES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NEON 24 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEI; PEBBLE BED REACTORS; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; RARE GASES; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESERVES; RESOURCES; SOLID HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; THORIUM ISOTOPES; THORIUM REACTORS; URANIUM ISOTOPES; WESTERN EUROPE; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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- Notes
- Document from Juelich Preservation Project; figs.