China announces nuclear energy breakthrough with fourth-gen, gas-cooled reactor plant — here's how it could power over 15 million homes first appeared on The Cool Down. The Cool Down.

A collaboration between multiple universities and private firms earlier this year started integrating molten salt reactor ...

A model of a high-temperature gas cooled reactor is displayed at the 2023 China International Nuclear Power Industry and Equipment Expo in Yantai, Shandong province, China, August 28, 2023.

The reactor in Shidao Bay, China is the world’s first gas-cooled nuclear power plant built for commercial demonstration. It is cooled by helium and can reach high temperatures of up to 750 ...

The small prototype reactor becomes the first Japanese gas-cooled reactor to restart following the introduction of new safety regulations. The HTTR reactor (Image: JAEA) The 30 MWt graphite-moderated ...

However, China has now constructed a full-scale Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Pebble-Bed Module (HTR-PM) in Shandong, which became commercially operational in December 2023 and is equipped with ...

A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating in 2021. The U.S. Energy Department said it provided more than $600 million since 2014 to support the design, ...

The HTTR - in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture - is a small prototype gas-cooled reactor. The 30 MWt graphite-moderated helium gas-cooled reactor achieved first criticality in November 1998. JAEA plans to ...

Ibaraki Prefecture is seeking to host the country's first demonstration reactor for next-generation nuclear technology known as the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR).

China has begun operations of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor that uses gas for cooling unlike conventional power plants that use pressurised water. The power plant built in ...