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The possibilities of using high-temperature reactors operating together with a gas turbine are determined for nuclear-powered icebreakers. The advantages of such systems over previously used nuclear-powered systems and diesel-electric propeller systems are examined. The possibilities of using the MARS-S reactor and gas-turbogenerators, utilizing the heat from the exhaust gases, in nuclear-powered icebreakers are studied. The characteristics of the MARS-S and propeller electric system of a nuclear-powered icebreaker with drive-shaft power up to 90 MW are presented. The possibility of using such systems in floating electric power plants utilizing heat for driving a counterpressure turbine is examined. A version of a single-reactor ship power plant for a lighter and an icebreaker, such as Taimir, is presented.
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P. N. Alekseev, N. N. Ponomarev-Stepnoi, Yu. N. Udyanskii, et al., “MARS low-power micropellet-fuel reactor with liquid-salt coolant,” At. Energ., 93, No.1, 3–13 (2002).
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Translated from Atomnaya Energiya, Vol. 99, No. 1, pp. 3–8, July 2005.
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Alekseev, P.N., Kukharkin, N.E., Udyanskii, Y.N. et al. Advanced Nuclear Power Systems with Micropelleted Fuel for Nuclear-Powered Ships. At Energy 99, 441–445 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0229-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0229-z