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Small Modular Reactors Database

Glossary

HALEU

High-assay low enriched uranium

Uranium enriched to 5…20 percent U-235

Heat Pipe

Heat transfer device using phase transition

Heavy Water

Deuterium monoxide

Water whose hydrogen atoms are all deuterium isotopes

Heavy water PWR

Heavy-water pressurised reactor

Primary heat transport: D2O (heavy) water

High temperature GCR

High-temperature gas-cooled reactor

Primary heat transport: helium gas

High temperature hexagonal GCR

High temperature gas cooled reactor

Fuel assembly arrangement in hexagon form

High temperature pebble bed GCR

HTGR fuel element form consisting of movable spherical elements

The fuel elements of tennis-ball size are called pebbles

High temperature prismatic GCR

HTGR fuel element form consisting of prismatic blocks

Primary heat transport: helium gas

HTGFR

High-temperature gas-cooled fast reactor

Primary heat transport: helium gas

HTGR (pebble bed)

HTGR fuel element form consisting of movable spherical elements

The fuel elements of tennis-ball size are called pebbles