{"id":31876,"date":"2016-11-12T03:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T11:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/canadian-design-review-for-starcore-htgr"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:22:20","slug":"canadian-design-review-for-starcore-htgr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/canadian-design-review-for-starcore-htgr","title":{"rendered":"Canadian design review for StarCore HTGR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canadian-design-review-for-starcore-htgr.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian reactor designer StarCore Nuclear has applied to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to begin the vendor design review process for its Generation IV high temperature gas reactor (HTGR).<\/p>\n<p>Montr\u00e9al-based StarCore, founded in 2008, is focused on developing small modular reactors (SMRs) to provide power and potable water to remote communities in Canada. Its standard HTGR unit would produce 20 MWe (36 MWth), expandable to 100 MWe, from a unit small enough to be delivered by truck. The helium-cooled reactor uses Triso fuel \u2014 spherical particles of uranium fuel coated by carbon which effectively gives each tiny particle its own primary containment system \u2014 manufactured by BWXT Technologies. Each reactor would require refuelling at five-yearly intervals.<\/p>\n<p>StarCore describes its reactor as \u201cinherently safe\u201d, with a steep negative thermal coefficient which eliminates the possibility of a core meltdown. The use of helium \u2014 which does not become radioactive \u2014 as a coolant means that any loss of coolant would be \u201cinconsequential\u201d, the company says. The reactors would be embedded 50 metres underground in concrete silos sealed with ten-tonne caps.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/NN-Canadian-design-review-for-StarCore-HTGR-0811167.html\">http:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/NN-Canadian-design-review-...11167.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian reactor designer StarCore Nuclear has applied to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to begin the vendor design review process for its Generation IV high temperature gas reactor (HTGR). Montr\u00e9al-based StarCore, founded in 2008, is focused on developing small modular reactors (SMRs) to provide power and potable water to remote communities in Canada. Its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49607,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31876\/revisions\/49607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}