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IAEA Convenes Global Experts to Assesses High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors for Electricity, Heat and Hydrogen
Dec 22 2021
Several countries have come together at the IAEA to discuss their plans for developing and deploying advanced High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors (HTGRs) to help decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors such as industry and transport and achieve a successful energy transition to net zero by 2050.

The three-day meeting of the IAEA’s Technical Working Group on Gas Cooled Reactors (TWG-GCR) took place just before China announced on 20 December that it had connected to the grid a High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Pebble-Bed Module (HTR-PM). This is the first of two such small modular reactor (SMR) units being deployed at the Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant in eastern China. With cores comprised of graphite pebbles and specially designed fuel particles, these reactors can operate at temperatures of up to 750° C, providing low-carbon heat for industry and greater efficiency compared with traditional reactors.

Experts from the 14 countries belonging to the TWG-GCR—which since 1978 has reviewed the IAEA’s work on these reactors, assessed knowledge gaps and advised the Agency on initiatives and activities—met virtually on 13-15 December to discuss the global development of gas cooled reactors. In focus were HTGRs of the SMR type and the role they can play in ushering in the low-carbon hydrogen economy, which could make a major contribution to achieving net zero emissions.

“Nuclear power is one of the most promising approaches for efficient, massive and CO2-free hydrogen production,” said Mikhail Chudakov, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy. “High temperature gas cooled reactors are considered to be the most suitable reactor type for nuclear hydrogen production.”
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