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Pum** Equipment for Nuclear Energy and the Non-Nuclear Market
OKBM Afrikantov possesses unique experience in develo** different types of highly reliable pum** equipment. The pum** equipment developed at the enterprise possesses high safety and reliability metrics a...
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Reactor Installations with Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors for Two-Component Nuclear Energy
The experience of origination and operation of BN-600, -800 and development of BN-1200 commercial power units of two-component nuclear energy are recounted. Substantiation is given for the engineering solution...
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Gen-IV Reactor Systems Criteria Implementation in BN-1200
The design of the BN-1200 sodium-cooled fast reactor is analyzed from the standpoint of its compliance with the criteria fitting the promising Gen-IV reactor facilities. The basic technical solutions adopted i...
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Similarity of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor technologies and designs in Russia and USA
Historical information concerning the development of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors in the USA and Russia is presented. The reactor facilities MHTGR (USA), VG-400 (Russia), VGM (Russia), GT-MGR (Russia, ...
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Development of a design for the GT-MHR energy conversion unit
Since 1995, the General Atomics Company (USA) and OKBM have been jointly develo** a design for GT-MHR — a modular helium-cooled reactor and energy-conversion unit with a direct gas-turbine cycle. The reactor...
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Substantiation of the parameters and layout solutions for an energy conversion unit with a gas-turbine cycle in a nuclear power plant with HTGR
Light is shed on questions concerning the application of a direct closed gas-turbine cycle for generating electricity in a nuclear power plant with HTGR. This makes it possible to use such reactor systems for ...
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High-temperature gas-cooled reactors — energy source for industrial production of hydrogen
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 interna...