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High-temperature gas-cooled reactors — energy source for industrial production of hydrogen

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High-temperature helium-cooled reactors are the best understood nuclear technology that can supply high-temperature heat for thermal processes for producing hydrogen. The GT-MGR reactor — an innovative international modular design of a helium-cooled reactor with a gas-turbine cycle — best meets the requirements for hydrogen production and is proposed as a basis for a nuclear energy source. In this paper, the technical aspects of the proposed application of HTGR as a source of energy for producing hydrogen are analyzed. The required parameters of the energy obtained from HTGR for the presently completed and future hydrogen-production technology are examined. The problems and additional R&D work on the use of HTGR at high helium temperatures are indicated.

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  1. I. I. Afrikantov Special Office for Machine Design, Russia

    F. M. Mitenkov, N. G. Kodochigov, A. V. Vasyaev & V. F. Golovko

  2. Russian Science Center Kurchatov Institute, Russia

    N. N. Ponomarev-Stepnoi, N. E. Kukharkin & A. Ya. Stolyarevskii

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  1. F. M. Mitenkov
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 97, No. 6, pp. 432–446, December, 2004.

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Mitenkov, F.M., Kodochigov, N.G., Vasyaev, A.V. et al. High-temperature gas-cooled reactors — energy source for industrial production of hydrogen. At Energy 97, 829–840 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0069-x

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