The High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) Demonstration Project was officially launched following the State Council’s approval in February 2008 of the overall plan for its implementation.

Graphite dust is generated as a by-product of normal operations in high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), predominantly arising from mechanical wear of graphite-based components. Typically ...

GREENBELT, Md., Aug. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- X Energy, LLC (X-energy) and a subsidiary of Southern Nuclear Operating Company (Southern Nuclear) have entered into a memorandum of understanding as ...

We use high-temperature reactors to demonstrate processes in which chemical reactions take place at particularly high temperatures. To do this, we heat the reactors to over 500 degrees Celsius by ...

High temperature gas cooled reactors similar to the HTR-PM currently under construction in China could make uranium recovery energy neutral (Image: CNEC) As global demand for mineral commodities ...

High-temperature gas-cooled reactor projects have been boosted by a new agreement between CNECC and Tsinghua University, ... Today's designs for high-temperature reactors can trace their ancestry to ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it plans to start producing clean hydrogen using heat from its High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) in Ibaraki Prefecture close to Tokyo by 2028.

Ibaraki Prefecture is seeking to host the country's first demonstration reactor for next-generation nuclear technology known as the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR).

The reactor in Shidao Bay, China is the world’s first gas-cooled nuclear power plant built for commercial demonstration. It is cooled by helium and can reach high temperatures of up to 750 ...

China has begun operations of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor that uses gas for cooling unlike conventional power plants that use pressurised water. The power plant built in ...