· Gas Turbine -Modular Helium Reactor Design & Safety Approach Presented to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff 24 September 2002 Laurence L Parme Manager, Reactor Safety & Licensing General Atomics 1 of 20 24 Sept 02 4.GENERAL ATOMICS Attachment 3. U.S. AND EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY BASES FOR MODULAR HIGH TEMPERATURE …
The Gas Turbine - Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is an advanced nuclear power system that offers unparalleled safety, high thermal efficiency, environmental advantages, and competitive ...
· the Monte Carlo Continuous Energy Burnup Code MCB applied to the Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor oper-ating on a thorium fuel. A thorium fuel offers valuable attractive advantages: low fuel cost, high reduction of actinides production and the possibility to enable the reactor to act as a breeder of fuel by the neutron capture of fertile 232Th.
· High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR), which is a graphite moderated, helium cooled reactor, is particularly attractive due to capability of producing high temperature helium gas and its inherent safety characteristics, as well as an option to efficiently burn weapons-grade plutonium for energy production.
· One of these reactors is the Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR). GT-MHR is a gas cooled, carbon moderated reactor designed mainly to dispose the materials acquired from nuclear warheads (Lee et al., 1993, Lee et al., 2008). On this reactor, different studies were made.
· The gas-turbine-modular helium reactor (GT-MHR) concept is based on the experience in the area of helium-cooled reactors with prismatic fuel assemblies (FA) and ceramic fuel particles and on innovations in the power conversion system with the closed gas-turbine cycle and turbomachine with electromagnetic bearings (EMB).
· The Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is a new turbine generating system powered by a passiVely-safe nuclear reactor. It eliminates the need to make steam to produce electricity, and frees us from the pollution and waste" of fossil-fuel generating plants. It could also help to
Modular Helium Reactor an overview ScienceDirect . The most known projects are the gas turbine modular helium reactor (GTMHR) and the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) Both reactor designs use TRISO type fuel GTMHR is a nuclear fission power reactor design under development by a group of Russian enterprises (OKBM Afrikantov, Kurchatov Institute, …
· Gas Turbine -Modular Helium Reactor Safety A pproach.-.Presented to NRC Staff 3 December 2001 Laurence L Parme Manager, Reactor Safety & Licensing General Atomics. . - : - . +GENERAIL . ATOMICS. Modular Gas-Reactor Safety Approach Differs From Earlier Reactor Designs GT-MHR safety emphasizes
· The Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is the result of coupling the evolution of a low power density passively safe modular reactor with key technology developments in the U.S. during the last decade: large industrial gas turbines; large active magnetic bearings; and compact, highly effective plate-fin heat exchangers.
The Gas Turbine - Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is an advanced nuclear power system that offers unparalleled safety, high thermal efficiency, environmental advantages, and competitive ...
· OSTI.GOV Conference: The modular helium reactor - an innovative second generation reactor Title: The modular helium reactor - an innovative second generation reactor Full Record
The Gas Turbine - Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is an advanced nuclear power system that offers unparalleled safety, high thermal efficiency, environmental advantages, and competitive ...
· The gas turbine modular helium reactor (GT-MHR) is a second generation meltdown-proo nuclearf powe r plant that is under development and planned to be operationan the l early i next century. The power conversion system is based on a direct Brayton cycle, with intercooling and a high degref e o
· the longer terin~ any bypass valve adjustments are complemented by helium inventory adjustments to inake helium maSs 'flow through the turbine match reactor power .. This leads to the highest . efficiency in' steady state plant operation. Higher helium inventories are used for higher plant 4-150 I I,I u. -
The Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is the result of coupling the evolution of a low power density passively safe modular reactor with key technology developments in the U.S. during the last decade: large industrial gas turbines; large active magnetic bearings; and compact, highly effective plate-fin heat exchangers.
· Test Plan for Helium Circulators (PHTS, SCS, SHTS) 911138/0 1 1 INTRODUCTION Gas cooled nuclear reactor circulators have been used for several decades to circulate primary coolant CO 2 and helium through various types of high temperature gas cooled reactor cores.
· This report provides a summary description of the 600 MWt Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor concept and the results of assessments of cost, safety, constructibility, operability, maintainability, and availability. The design of this concept was initiated in …
· These reactors pose the potential to provide power to developing nations with low proliferation risk, bring independent power to military bases, and generate electricity in extremely remote locations. Technological Overview . …
The gas turbine-modular helium reactor (GT-MHR) for electricity generation and plutonium consumption. I. N. Gorelov, A. I. Kiryushin, N. G. Kodochigov, N. G. Kuzavkov & Yu. P. Sukharev Atomic Energy volume 83, pages 877–881 (1997)Cite this article
· (Fig. 1). The reactor core physics, general core design, and fuel cycle are similar to those of a gas turbine–modular helium reactor (GT-MHR) and pebble-bed modular reactor (PBMR). This is because the neutron absorption and scattering cross sections in these salts are low ()—significantly below that of water.
· The Gas Turbine – Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) couples a High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) with a Brayton power conversion cycle to produce electricity at high efficiency. It is based on HTGR technology developed over the past 40 years that includes the design, construction and operation of seven HTGR plants.
· Abstract – The Gas Turbine – Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is an advanced nuclear power system that offers unparalleled safety, high thermal efficiency, environmental advantages, and competitive electricity generation costs. The GT-MHR module couples a gas-cooled modular helium reactor (MHR) with a high
· A thermodynamic analysis of the coupling of a reverse osmosis (RO) process with the gas turbine-modular helium reactor (GT-MHR) is presented in which the waste heat is utilized for the generation of steam as it is expanded in a steam turbine. A comprehensive parametric study is carried out to reveal the effect of some parameters such as compression ratio, turbine inlet …
Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is one of the new types of the reactors with high efficiency and increased safety features. The usage of different kinds of fissile material in this ...
· Optimization of the Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor using statistical methods to maximize performance without compromising system design margins
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The most known projects are the gas turbine modular helium reactor (GT-MHR) and the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR). Both reactor designs use TRISO type fuel. GT-MHR is a nuclear fission power reactor design under development by a group of Russian enterprises (OKBM Afrikantov, Kurchatov Institute, VNIINM, and others), an American group headed by General …
· Energy Multiplier Module (EM2) is a helium-cooled fast reactor with a core outlet temperature of 850°C. It is designed by General Atomics (GA) as a modular, grid-capable power source with a net unit output of 265 MW(e). The reactor converts fertile isotopes to fissile and burns them in situ over a 30-year core life.
GA-A22069 OPTIMIZATION OF THE GAS TURBINE - MODULAR HELIUM REACTOR USING STATISTICAL METHODS TO MAXIMIZE PERFORMANCE WITHOUT COMPROMISING SYSTEM DESIGN MARGINS L.J. LOMMERS, L.L. PARME, and A.S. SHENOY This is a preprint of a paper to be presented at the I995 International Joint Power Generation Conference in
· use TRISO fuel rather than BISO fuel used in the Peach Bottom reactor; the use of a reactor pressure vessel rather than prestressed concrete found in Fort St. Vrain; and the use of helium as a primary coolant rather than CO 2. Other lessons learned, 68 in total, are documented in Sections 2 through 6 and will be
· Reactor Unit Helium Flowpath. Fuel Handling & Storage System Fuel/Graphite Discrimination system Damaged Sphere Fuel Return Graphite Return Container Fresh Fuel Container Spent Fuel Tank. Equipment Layout. Modular Pebble Bed Reactor Thermal Power 250 MW Core Height 10.0 m Core Diameter 3.5 m