ALMR plant design and performance
Abstract
The advanced liquid-metal reactor (ALMR) plant, sponsored by the US Department of Energy and being developed by a General Electric Company lead industrial team, features simple and reliable safety systems, seismic isolation, passive decay heat removal, passive reactivity control, and substantial margins to structural and fuel damage limits during potential accident situations. These features will result in significant gains for public safety and protection of the owner's investment. Standardized modular construction and extensive factory fabrication will result in a plant design that is economically competitive. The reference commercial ALMR plant utilizes nine reactor modules arranged in three identical 480-MW(electric) power blocks for an overall plant net electrical rating of 1440 MW(electric). Each power block features three identical reactor modules, each with its own steam generator, that jointly supply power to a single turbine generator.
- Authors:
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- GE Nuclear Energy, San Jose, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6983256
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-921102-
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-018X; CODEN: TANSAO
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Journal Name:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 66; Conference: Joint American Nuclear Society (ANS)/European Nuclear Society (ENS) international meeting on fifty years of controlled nuclear chain reaction: past, present, and future, Chicago, IL (United States), 15-20 Nov 1992; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; DESIGN; PERFORMANCE; REACTOR TECHNOLOGY; AFTER-HEAT REMOVAL; MODULAR STRUCTURES; REACTOR CONTROL SYSTEMS; REACTOR CORES; REACTOR PROTECTION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; US DOE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENGINEERED SAFETY SYSTEMS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; REMOVAL; US ORGANIZATIONS; 210500* - Power Reactors, Breeding
Citation Formats
Kwant, W, Boardman, C E, Dayal, Y, and Magee, P M. ALMR plant design and performance. United States: N. p., 1992.
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Kwant, W, Boardman, C E, Dayal, Y, & Magee, P M. ALMR plant design and performance. United States.
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@article{osti_6983256,
title = {ALMR plant design and performance},
author = {Kwant, W and Boardman, C E and Dayal, Y and Magee, P M},
abstractNote = {The advanced liquid-metal reactor (ALMR) plant, sponsored by the US Department of Energy and being developed by a General Electric Company lead industrial team, features simple and reliable safety systems, seismic isolation, passive decay heat removal, passive reactivity control, and substantial margins to structural and fuel damage limits during potential accident situations. These features will result in significant gains for public safety and protection of the owner's investment. Standardized modular construction and extensive factory fabrication will result in a plant design that is economically competitive. The reference commercial ALMR plant utilizes nine reactor modules arranged in three identical 480-MW(electric) power blocks for an overall plant net electrical rating of 1440 MW(electric). Each power block features three identical reactor modules, each with its own steam generator, that jointly supply power to a single turbine generator.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6983256},
journal = {Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)},
issn = {0003-018X},
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volume = 66,
place = {United States},
year = {1992},
month = {1}
}