Pebble Bed High Temperature Reactor for Electric and Cogeneration Application

Abstract

Specific energy demand of Indonesia with its distributed energy demand required a special energy supply solution. The energy supply solution should be able to fulfil the electric demand of huge and growing population which spread in many different islands also to fulfil the energy demand to process abundances yet distributed natural sources. This paper proposes a pebble bed high temperature reactor as an energy supply in the form electric and/or cogeneration application. A parametric survey of the core geometry of a 150MWt Pebble Bed Reactor called PeLUIt is performed, follow by an equilibrium analysis of the optimized design. An accident analysis of depressurized loss of forced cooling (DLOFC) is performed to show the strong passive safety features of the design. Finally the heat-mass balance of the plant is also presented.