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From: philv3/21/2016 10:33:23 AM
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This is interesting. The first graphite nuclear plants?

China plans to open 1st ‘meltdown-free’ nuclear power plant by 2017

Published time: 12 Feb, 2016 11:57Edited time: 12 Feb, 2016 12:00

rt.com

China says it is planning to bring a safe nuclear power plant that will not suffer from meltdowns online in November 2017. It would be the world’s first high-temperature, gas-cooled pebble-bed nuclear plant built on an industrial scale.

operational scheme:
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Even though the Shandong reactor will operate at very high temperatures, its designers say that it will not suffer from any potential meltdowns. This is because high temperature reactors do not need external cooling systems, such as the sort that failed at Fukushima. It uses helium gas as the heat transfer medium and runs at temperatures up to 950 °C.

installing reactor
i.guancha.cn

Each fuel ball is 60 mm in diameter, contains 8000 0.9mm high purity Graphite ball, and then each Graphite ball contains a 0.5mm core UO2
i.guancha.cn

i.guancha.cn

also:
China is building the world's first nuclear reactor guaranteed not to meltdown
shanghaiist.com

In what will be a milestone for nuclear tech the plant involves two 105-megawatt (combined 210-megawatt) "meltdown-proof" Generation IV reactors. It'll be the first of its kind in the world to be built at a commercial scale, according to the MIT Technology Review.
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