Instead, Britain decided in the 1960's to produce its own advanced gas-cooled reactors.

Having started along the path of gas-cooled reactors, the nuclear industry stuck with them when it came to looking for an improved model.

As such, he was the driving force behind the advanced gas-cooled reactors, which have led to today's more efficient nuclear power.

The goal was to gain operational experience with a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor.

Gas-cooled reactors do not have issues with voids forming.

The proposed gas-cooled reactor is said to "burn" plutonium, eliminating the dangerous nuclear bomb material.

So advanced gas-cooled reactors are given support.

Windscale was also the site of the prototype British Advanced gas-cooled reactor.

It was a pilot project to test a heavy-water moderated, carbon dioxide gas-cooled reactor.

High temperature gas-cooled reactors (in development or construction)

For two decades, a very small, high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor has operated successfully in West Germany.

Projects include the Fast-breeder reactor demonstration project and a high temperature gas-cooled reactor.

The station is of the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) type.

Gas-cooled reactors and Molten salt reactors are also being looked at as an option for very high temperature operation.

Electricity is produced through the use of two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR).

Gas-cooled reactors powering helium-based closed-cycle gas turbines were suggested in 1945.

There are some of the new gas-cooled reactor designs that are meant to drive a gas-powered turbine, rather than using a secondary water system.

"We were concerned it wouldn't be economic," said Dr. Dean, whose company has studied larger high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors for decades.

In the advanced gas-cooled reactor, a British design, the core is made of a graphite neutron moderator where the fuel assemblies are located.

The GFR base design is a fast reactor, but in other ways similar to a high temperature gas-cooled reactor.

Later, Laboratory V was charged with the development of a gas-cooled reactor using enriched uranium and beryllium as a moderator.

High temperature gas-cooled reactors (past)

Gas-cooled reactor types include:

In the late 1950s the government asked the CEGB to modify the design of a number of advanced gas-cooled reactors.

These are the second generation of British gas-cooled reactors, using graphite as the neutron moderator and carbon dioxide as coolant.