Cold functional testing was completed at the second reactor of the Generation IV Shidao Bay-1 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor-pebble bed module (HTR-PM) demonstration plant under construction in China, China National Nuclear Corporation said.
The aim of the cold tests was to verify the reactor’s primary loop system and equipment and the strength and tightness of its auxiliary pipelines under pressure higher than the design pressure.
Identical tests at the first reactor of the twin-reactor HTR-PM plant began on 6 October and were completed on 19 October.
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