Development of plant dynamics analytical code named Conan-GTHTR for the Gas Turbine High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor, 1; Code validation by Use of the experimental data of HTTR

Takamatsu, Kuniyoshi  ; Katanishi, Shoji; Nakagawa, Shigeaki  ; Kunitomi, Kazuhiko 

The Gas Turbine High Temperature Reactor 300 (GTHTR300) composed of an inherent safe 600MWt reactor and a closed gas turbine power conversion system is a high efficient and economically competitive HTGR to be deployed in 2010s. To analyze the plant dynamics and the thermal hydraulics of the GTHTR300, a new analytical code (Conan-GTHTR) based on 'RELAP5/MOD3' has been developed and applied to heat transfer calculations of the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) for its verification. The results proved that the new code was available for transient simulations in Higt Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor systems.