Passive heat removal from the core of small and medium sized pebble bed reactors

K. Kugeler, P.-W. Phlippen, P. Schmidtlein and R. Swatoch

Energy, 1991, vol. 16, issue 1, 521-528

Abstract: It is one of the most important requirements for reactor safety to guarantee the removal of nuclear decay heat from the core in any accident condition. Today it is well known that pebble bed fuel elements stay intact if the maximum accident temperature remains below 1600 °C. Therefore, the reduction of the maximum accident temperature to below 1600 °C is necessary. This can be done in a realistic way by a passive, natural heat-transfer mechanism for small and medium sized HTGRs.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(91)90131-5

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