A high-temperature gas-cooled reactor is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which uses uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high reactor core output temperatures. All existing HTGR r
Refueling floor at Fort Saint Vrain HTGR, 1972
A simplified flow diagram of a 1,100 MWe HTGR.
Dragon reactor
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Dragon was an experimental high temperature gas-cooled reactor at Winfrith in Dorset, England, operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Its purpose was to test fuel and materials for th
High-temperature gas-cooled reactor
…in the United States (though no new commercial HTGRs have been developed there since). Experimental HTGRs have also existed in the United Kingdom (the Dragon reactor) and Germany (AVR reactor and THTR-300), and currently exist in Japan (the High-temperature engineering test reactor using prismatic fuel with 30 MWth…
Cutaway model of the Dragon reactor