PIUS reactor description and design status

The PIUS concept repres its an effort to accomplish a simplified reactor design which can be more easily understood by the general public. The design objectives that were established by ABB Atom at the start of the development work on SECURE, its heat only reactor design, encompassed  

It should be competitive in small and moderate capacity units with respect to costs, availability and maintainability  

It should be based on demonstrated widely employed basic technology to a maximum extent  

It should be simple and flexible to operate and not make excessive demands on the resources of qualified personnel  

The safety should be transparent , i.e., understandable to educated laymen, built on simple natural laws, and independent of failure-prone systems and components  

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