Safe Hydrogen Generation by Nuclear HTR

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:21160735

Sochet, Isabelle; Viossat, Anne-Laure ^[1]; Rouyer, Jean-Loup ^[2]; Hemmerich, Philippe ^[3]

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1. Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieurs de Bourges, Laboratoire Energetique Explosions Structures (ENSIB), 10 Bvd Lahitolle - 18020 Bourges Cedex (France)
2. Electricite de France (EDF) / Branche Energies - Division Ingenierie Nucleaire, 1, Place Pleyel - 93282 Saint-Denis Cedex (France)
3. Electricite de France (EDF) /Branche Energies - Division Ingenierie Nucleaire, Basic Design Department - SEPTEN (France)

Several concepts of new high temperature nuclear reactors are designed to generate electricity and hydrogen. Hydrogen processes envisaged here are sulfur iodine thermo-chemical process and high temperature electrolysis. Proximity of hydrogen generation is a safety challenge for nuclear reactor. This paper describes prevention and protection against hydrogen hazards as a function of inventories and type of operation of the processes. This study is important for the designers because long distance between reactor and hydrogen facility induces difficult technological equipment. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 21160735
• Resource Relation: Conference: ICAPP'04: 2004 international congress on advances in nuclear power plants, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 13-17 Jun 2004; Other Information: Country of input: France; 26 refs; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 2004 international congress on advances in nuclear power plants - ICAPP'04, 2338 pages.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
DISTANCE
ELECTRICITY
ELECTROLYSIS
EQUIPMENT
HYDROGEN
INTERSTITIAL HYDROGEN GENERATION
INVENTORIES
IODINE
OPERATION
REACTORS
SAFETY
SULFUR