Modular high temperature reactor (Modular HTR) contributing the global environment protection

Rapid increasing of the energy demand and the economic growth of the developing countries are threatening to lead to unstable supply of the fossil resources and the aggravation of the global environment. Modular High Temperature Reactor (Modular HTR) is one of the most effective solutions of such problem. The GT-MHR (Gas-Turbine Modular Helium Reactor) is a typical plant of the Modular HTR, which is a high efficiency nuclear power generating plant, combined the Modular HTR having passive safety characteristics with the direct cycle helium gas turbine. It has sufficient potential to contribute the global environment protection with keeping the growing speed of the developing countries.

Fuji Electric joined the international GT-MHR project in January 1997 and has helped to finance it. Fuji Electric, in the behalf of the other participants of this project, introduces the outline of this project and main system of the GT-MHR plant in this paper.