PRELIMINARY DESIGNS FOR FOUR INTEGRATED GAS-COOLED CERAMIC-FUELED AND -MODERATED REACTOR CORE AND STEAM GENERATOR UNITS

摘要

A new plant configuration has "been developed that appears to be much superior to that used for the GCR-2 and HGCR-1 plants, which were based on the British Calder Hall and large CEA reactor plant layouts. Combining the reactor core and steam generator in a common pressure vessel to give a single functional unit yields major reductions in the cost of the pressure envelope, the ducts, the shield, and the nuclear plant containment vessel.