THTR-300
Sign in to saveThe THTR-300 was a thorium cycle high-temperature nuclear reactor rated at 300 MW electric (THTR-300) in Hamm-Uentrop, West Germany. It started operating in 1983, synchronized with the grid in 1985, operated at full power in February 1987 and was shut down on 1 September 1989. The THTR-300 served as a prototype high-temperature reactor (HTR) to use the TRISO pebble fuel produced by the AVR, an experimental pebble bed operated by VEW (Vereinigte Elektrizitätswerke Westfalen). The THTR-300 cost €2.05 billion and was predicted to cost an additional €425 million through December 2009 in decommissi
Key facts
- Power station.name
- THTR-300
- Power station.image
- Thtr300 kuehlturm.jpg
- Power station.image_caption
- Cooling tower of the THTR-300 (demolished in 1991)
- Power station.country
- Germany
- Power station.owner
- HKG
- Power station.operator
- HKG
- Power station.construction_began
- 1971
- Power station.commissioned
- 16 November 1985
- Power station.decommissioned
- 20 April 1988
- Power station.np_reactor_type
- PBR
- Power station.ps_units_decommissioned
- 1 × 308 MW
- Power station.ps_electrical_capacity
- 308 MW
- Power station.ps_annual_generation
- 1,083 GWh
- Power station.ps_electrical_cap_fac
- 40.1%
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- Official website
- www.thtr.de/index.htm
- Image
- Luftbild THTR-300.jpg
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- THTR-300
- service entry
- 1987-06-01
- service retirement
- 1989-09-29
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- Further development
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- References
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- IAEA technical documents
The THTR-300 was a thorium cycle high-temperature nuclear reactor rated at 300 MW electric (THTR-300) in Hamm-Uentrop, West Germany. It started operating in 1983, synchronized with the grid in 1985, operated at full power in February 1987 and was shut down on 1 September 1989. The THTR-300 served as a prototype high-temperature reactor (HTR) to use the TRISO pebble fuel produced by the AVR, an experimental pebble bed operated by VEW (Vereinigte Elektrizitätswerke Westfalen). The THTR-300 cost €2.05 billion and was predicted to cost an additional €425 million through December 2009 in decommissioning and other associated costs. The German state of North Rhine Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany, and Hochtemperatur-Kernkraftwerk GmbH (HKG) financed the THTR-300’s construction.
==History== On 4 June 1974, the Council of the European Communities established the Joint Undertaking "Hochtemperatur-Kernkraftwerk GmbH" (HKG).
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