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The history of the development of the first domestic high-temperature gas-cooled reactor — a unique experimental reactor for testing the core of reactors for nuclear-powered rocket motors — is briefly reviewed. The extraordinary requirements which were imposed on the reactor made it necessary to search for and implement many physical, structural, and technological innovations and to solve complicated scientific-engineering problems during development and startup. Data on the construction and characteristics of the reactor, the arrangement of the bench systems for servicing the reactor, and the results of the first startup and operation over a period of many years are presented.
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Translated from Atomnaya Energiya, Vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 163–170, March, 2005.
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Ponomarev-Stepnoi, N.N., Talyzin, V.M., Pavshuk, V.A. et al. High-Temperature Research Reactor (30th anniversary of power startup of IVG1). At Energy 98, 151–157 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0185-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0185-7