High-temperature reactors, energy

Aircraft Reactors. As early as World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force considered the use of a nuclear reactor for the propulsion of aircraft (62—64). In 1946 the nuclear energy for propulsion of aircraft (NEPA) program was set up at Oak Ridge, under Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation. Basic theoretical and experimental studies were carried out. The emphasis was on materials. A high temperature reactor was built and operated successfiiUy. 

G-8 Estimated thermal-to-hydrogen efficiency (nH) of the sulfur-iodine (SI) process and thermal energy required to produce a kilogram of hydrogen from the modular high-temperature reactor-SI technology, 215... 

The first element is technology simplification. All design variants are built on the premise that they share common system technologies to maximum extent possible. As a result, the design variants share a unified reactor and primary coolant circuit, an aerodynamically and mechanically similar line of helium gas turbines used for electricity production, and the IS process selected to produce hydrogen. This paper shows that the helium gas turbine and the IS process are compatible application systems with the high temperature reactor heat source to enable economically competitive energy production. 

S. Shiozawa Design Study on Gas Turbine High Temperature Reactor (GTHTR300) , Journal of Atomic Energy Society of Japan (in Japanese), 1(4), 352-360 (2002). 

SCHRAM, R.P.C., CORDFUNKE, E.H.P., VAN HEEK, A.L, High-Temperature Reactor Developments in The Netherlands, (3rd JAERI Symp., Oarai, 1996), Proc. JAERI-Conf 96-010, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (1996) 76-88. 

VDI, AVR - Experimental High-Temperature Reactor 21 Years of Successful Operation for a Future Energy Technology, Association of German Engineers, VDI-Verlag, Dusseldorf (1990). 

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