Rudolf Schulten

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles In the 1950s, Dr. Rudolf Schulten - professor at RWTH Aachen University - was the originator of the pebble bed reactor design, which compacts silicon carbide-coated uranium granules into hard, billiard-ball-like spheres to be used as fuel for a new high temperature, helium-cooled type of nuclear reactor. The idea took root and in due course a 46 MW_th (megawatt thermal) experimental pebble bed reactor (the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor, or AVR) was built at the J lich Research Centre in J lich, West Germany. It operated successfully for 21 years but was shut down because the pebble fuel testing program came to a halt. Some of the last pebble fuel tested in the AVR was for a low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel cycle anticipated for use in the HTR-MODUL design by Interatom/SIEMENS.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5511378186
• ISBN13: 9785511378183
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.0"