Survey on candidate construction site for the demonstrator of High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor in the UK

Fujiwara, Yusuke ; Nakajima, Kunihiro; Urabe, Kohei; Nagatsuka, Kentaro; Asano, Kazuhito; Shimizu, Atsushi ; Noguchi, Hiroki  ; Sato, Hiroyuki ; Ohashi, Hirofumi ; Sumita, Junya ; Sakaba, Nariaki 

High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGRs) have excellent safety features and can supply high-temperature heat without emitting carbon dioxide, and therefore are expected to stably produce large amounts of hydrogen to contribute carbon neutrality by 2050. The pertinent material for the "Basic Policy for GX Realization" shows the development process for the HTGR demonstrator with the goal of starting operation in the 2030s. Meanwhile, to achieve net-zero, the UK government has started the Advanced Module Reactor (AMR) Research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programme with the aim of starting operations of the HTGR demonstrator in the early 2030s. Against this background, with the aim of early deployment of HTGR technology, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), in collaboration with the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory (UKNNL), aims to demonstrate Japanese HTGR technology outside Japan and reflect the development of HTGR demonstrator in the UK to Japan. This document summarizes the results of a market survey of HTGR products and surveys of industrial infrastructure in the UK, the environment and social conditions of Hartlepool, a candidate construction site, with the aim of contributing to the design study of the HTGR demonstrator in the UK (UKJ-HTR).