A review of research progress of graphite oxidation in high temperature gas-cooled reactors

X Zhang, F Sun, G Xiong, W Xu, M Ding - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract (Very) High temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) are one of the 4th-
generation nuclear reactors with high inherent safety. They use graphite materials as …

Investigating the possible advantages of using different concentrations of transuranic elements with thorium-uranium dioxide as a fuel for PBMR-400

MYM Mohsen, SA Luhaib, N Alnassar… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2025 - Elsevier
Reactor reactivity control materials play a crucial role in managing the stability and efficiency
of nuclear reactors by regulating neutron flux and maintaining the desired reactivity levels …

Radiation dose consequences of postulated limiting accidents in small modular reactors to inform emergency planning zone size requirements

DW Hummel, S Chouhan, L Lebel… - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Many Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are being developed with a goal of reduced
Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) size requirements. It is postulated that the predicted dose …

Study on the DLOFC and PLOFC accidents of the 200 MWe pebble-bed modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor with TINTE and SPECTRA codes

Y Zheng, MM Stempniewicz, Z Chen, L Shi - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Validation and verification (V&V) is important and receives significant attention during the
design and analysis of the nuclear power plant. As the first commercial modular high …

[PDF][PDF] An Innovative Fuel Design for HTGRs: Evaluating a 10-Hour High-Temperature Oxidation of the SiC Fuel Matrix During Air Ingress Accident Conditions.

Y Nishimura, A Gubarevich, K Yoshida… - Energies …, 2024 - t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp
Preventing severe corrosion incidents caused by air ingress accidents in high-temperature
gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) while improving heat removal efficiency from the core is of …

A multi-level nonlinear elimination-based JFNK method for multi-scale multi-physics coupling problem in pebble-bed HTR

Y Wu, B Liu, H Zhang, J Guo, F Li - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In the pebble-bed high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, various physical phenomena occur
at different spatial scales and are coupled together tightly in a nonlinear manner. More …

Preliminary phenomena identification and ranking tables on the subject of the High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor-Pebble Bed Module thermal fluids and accident …

F Gou, F Chen, Y Dong - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor-Pebble Bed Module (HTR-PM) is a
demonstration power plant designed by the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology …

Research on the fuel loading patterns of the initial core in Chinese pebble-bed reactor HTR-PM

J Zhang, J Guo, F Li, Y Sun - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a kind of safe and advanced
nuclear energy system, which can provide electric power and high-temperature process …

Transient Study on the HTR‐PM with TINTE‐vPower Coupling Code Package

J Sun, X Sun, Y Zheng - Science and Technology of Nuclear …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The high‐temperature gas‐cooled reactor pebble‐bed module (HTR‐PM) nuclear power
plant consists of two nuclear steam supply system modules, each of which drives the steam …

Physico-chemical characteristics of graphite aerosols generated during postulated air ingress accident

SK Yadav, M Joshi, Y Sharma, P Shukla… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Graphite is used as a structural material, neutron moderator and reflector in some designs of
nuclear reactors. The core of a prismatic or pebble bed type High Temperature Reactor …