uranium sector, page-14

Wish I had of seen the program sound interesting

HTR-10 is a 10 MWt prototype pebble bed reactor at Tsinghua University in China. Construction began in 2000 and it achieved first criticality in January 2003.

In 2005, China announced its intention to scale up HTR-10 for commercial power generation. The first two 250-MWt High Temperature Reactor-Pebblebed Modules (HTR-PM) will be installed at the Shidaowan plant in Shandong Province and together drive a steam turbine generating 200 MWe. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2009 and commissioning in 2013.

HTR-10 is basically a replica of the German Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor (AVR). Like AVR, HTR-10 and HTR-PM are fundamentally safer, cheaper and more efficient than other nuclear reactor designs.[citation needed] Outlet temperature ranges between 700 C to 950 C, which allows these reactors to generate hydrogen as a byproduct efficiently, thus supplying inexpensive and non-polluting fuel for fuel-cell powered vehicles.[citation needed]