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Present status of HTTR and its test experience

Iyoku, Tatsuo; Nojiri, Naoki ; Fujimoto, Nozomu; Shinohara, Masanori ; Ota, Yukimaru; Tachibana, Yukio 

The High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) is expected to be one of the most promising energy sources not only for electricity generation and but also for process heat applications such as hydrogen production, desalination, etc. In Japan, since 1960s Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been developing HTGR technologies such fuel, high temperature metal, graphite, core physics, thermal hydraulics control and so forth. These technologies were well developed and used to design and construct the Japan's first HTGR, High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR). It is a graphite-moderated and helium-cooled HTGR with the rated thermal power of 30 MW and the maximum outlet coolant temperature of 950$$^{circ}$$C. The HTTR achieved the reactor outlet coolant temperature of 950$$^{circ}$$C on April 19, 2004. It is the highest coolant temperature outside reactor pressure vessel in the world. So far, basic performance data of the HTTR during the power-up and long-term high temperature operation tests are accumulated. Except that, various unique tests concerning the HTGR safety are conducted to confirm inherent safety characteristics of the HTGR.

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