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The new industrial economy takes shape at NGNP

Steve Aplin
January 9, 2012

It’s exciting and fascinating to watch the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) take shape. The NGNP is a graphite moderated, gas-cooled nuclear reactor that draws on nearly half a century of R&D and operational experience with these kinds of reactors in the civilian nuclear sector. This will be a high-temperature machine—above 700 °C at the outlet. Current water cooled reactors’ outlet temperatures are in the 250° to 350° range. The high …Read the rest of the article