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Germany’s Unterweser completes removal of steam generators
All four steam generators at Germany’s Unterweser nuclear power plant have been removed from the reactor building, plant owner PreussenElektra has announced. The single-unit pressurized water reactor was shut down in 2011 as part of Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear energy. Decommissioning and dismantlement of the reactor began soon after PreussenElektra was granted a permit for the work in February 2018.
W. J. Lackey, D. P. Stinton, J. D. Sease
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 2 | September 1977 | Pages 227-237
Fabrication | Coated Particle Fuel / Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31882
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A new and improved gas distributor was developed for use in coating fuel particles for the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. The coating gas enters the coating furnace through multiple thin regions of a porous plate. This more uniformly disperses the gas and leads to improved coating properties. High-quality carbon and silicon carbide coatings were deposited with the new distributor in both 13- and 24-cm (130- and 240-mm)-diam coating furnaces.
