World's First Commercial High Temperature Nuclear Reactor starts construction in China in 2009


	World's First Commercial High Temperature Nuclear Reactor starts construction in China in 2009

Mohir

7-1-2008 9:36 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ee8d85e3-9ef6-4ecf-b69c-5dd9d3f7f4d0/DFEE4B5D-87BD-426C-95F9-F10B33F07A51/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/06/worlds-first-commercial-high.html" href="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/06/worlds-first-commercial-high.html" style="font-size: 11px;">nextbigfuture.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/06/worlds-first-commercial-high.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/nextbigfuture.com/img/2F328E7D-77DD-4426-AE06-C9B37371A665" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/06/worlds-first-commercial-high.html"><DIV><A target="blank" href="http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/332484/140/ARTCL/none/none/1/Powering-Up-a-Growing-Nation/">A 200 MWe high temperature reactor will be the safest nuclear power plant ever designed and built.</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/06/worlds-first-commercial-high.html"><DIV>The major safety issue regarding nuclear reactors lies in how to cool them efficiently, as they continue to produce residual heat even after shutdown. Gas-cooled reactors <A href="#" class="kLink"  id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">discharge</SPAN></FONT></A> surplus heat and don’t need additional safety systems like water-cooled reactors do. The HTR-10 was subject to a test of its intrinsic safety in September 2004 when, as an <A href="#" class="kLink"  id="KonaLink2"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">experiment</SPAN></FONT></A>, it was shut down with no cooling. Fuel temperature reached less than 1600 C and there was no failure.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/06/worlds-first-commercial-high.html"><DIV>“Using the existing operating HTR-10 reactor at the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology of Tsinghua University in Beijing, we have already done what would be unthinkable in a conventional reactor—we switched off the helium coolant and successfully let the reactor cool down by itself,” said Wu.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DFEE4B5D-87BD-426C-95F9-F10B33F07A51/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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