Commissariat a L'energie Atomique

Alfred Lecocq

Pierre Faugeras

Jean-Louis Romet

The low-temperature steam generator consists of a single enclosure containing a molten-salt reactor and a fluidized-bed exchanger located above the reactor core and inserted in the molten-salt circuit. The molten salt is circulated within the primary tube elements while water is circulated within the secondary tube elements and is discharged in the form of steam. The two banks of tube elements are immersed in a particle bed which is subjected to agitation by a stream of inert gas.

Low temperature steam generator

A hydrogen pressure of the order of 1 atmosphere is established in the secondary salt circuit of a molten salt reactor so as to ensure that the hydrogen saturates the secondary salt and diffuses from the secondary salt to the primary salt.

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Bures-sur-Yvette, France

Alfred Lecocq