Status Report on HTR Research, Development, and Deployment in the USA

Conference · Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:1478195

Gougar, Hanse D. ^[1]; Li, Diana ^[2]; Caponiti, Alice ^[2]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory
2. Department of Energy

Abstract – The Gas-Cooled Reactor deployment effort in the United States is a collaboration between the US government and private vendors. The US Department of Energy sponsors the qualification of fuels, materials, and analysis methods that exploit the capabilities of the national laboratories (mainly Idaho, Oak Ridge, and Argonne) to generate the fundamental fuel, material, and core behavior data needed to support design and licensing efforts by vendors in general. Private HTR vendors provide input to the R&D program and engage in the design of the systems, structures, and components that are unique to their design concepts. Their plant design all exploit the properties and behavior of the TRISO fuel, graphite, and alloys being tested in the DOE qualification programs. This paper will summarize the goals and recent progress of the US Gas-Cooled Reactor Program.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1478195
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-18-45709-Rev000
• Conference Information: HTR2018, Warsaw Poland, 10/08/2018 - 10/10/2018
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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