HTR-10
HTR-10 is a 10 MWt prototype pebble bed reactor at Tsinghua University in China. Construction began in 2000 and it achieved first criticality in January 2003.
In 2005, China announced its intention to scale up HTR-10 for commercial power generation. The first two 250-MWt High Temperature Reactor-Pebblebed Modules (HTR-PM) will be installed at the Shidaowan plant in Shandong Province and together drive a steam turbine generating 200 MWe. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2009 and commissioning in 2013.
HTR-10 is modeled after the German Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor (AVR). Like AVR, HTR-10 and HTR-PM are intended to be fundamentally safer[1], cheaper and more efficient than other nuclear reactor designs.[citation needed] Outlet temperature ranges between 700 C to 950 C, which allows these reactors to generate hydrogen as a byproduct efficiently, thus supplying inexpensive and non-polluting fuel for fuel cell powered vehicles.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Hu, Shouyin; Wang, Ruipian; Gao, Zuying (2004), "Safety Demonstration Tests On HTR-10", Proceedings of the Conference on High Temperature Reactors (Beijing, China): 1–16, http://www.iaea.or.at/inisnkm/nkm/aws/htgr/abstracts/abst_htr2004_h06.html, retrieved 2010-04-26
- ^ Sun, Yuliang; Xu, Jingming; Zhang, Zuoyi (2006), "R&D effort on nuclear hydrogen production technology in China", International Journal of Nuclear Hydrogen Production and Applications 1 (2): 104–111, http://inderscience.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1743-4939&volume=1&issue=2&spage=104, retrieved 2010-04-26
[edit] External links
- Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom article at Wired News.
- China Nurses Failed Nuclear Technologies at Chosun Ilbo
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