Tsinghua Institute of Nuclear Energy
Focus on research and advance world-class nuclear energy research and development
In the field of nuclear energy, the Institute of Nuclear Energy and New Energy Technology of Tsinghua University is the largest physical research institute in China's higher education system and a world-class nuclear energy technology research and development base. The 30th-year self-developed fourth-generation nuclear energy system, the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, has condensed the hard work of several generations of Tsinghua people and is also full of the infinite hope of Tsinghua people.
The demonstration project of the high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear power plant under construction in Rongcheng, Shandong, has injected a needle into the development of nuclear energy in the world. Zhang Zuoyi, chief engineer of high-temperature reactor major special technology and president of the Institute of Nuclear Research, said: "Tsinghua's team, led by Academician Wang Dazhong, has taken the primary goal of improving the safety of nuclear energy out of China's advanced nuclear energy technology, which is characterized by inherent safety. Follow, and run to the world's leading road to success. "Zhang Zuoyi recalled the beginning of research and development. At that time, the United States, Germany, Japan, etc. were far ahead in the research and development of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, while China can only" follow ". With the support of the "863" plan, Tsinghua University upholds the spirit of "striving for self-improvement." After more than 30 years of unremitting efforts by two generations of scientists, it has finally created a world-leading advanced nuclear energy system.
As the world's first commercial demonstration project, the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant, in the process of research and development, Tsinghua Nuclear Research Institute and domestic nuclear industry and equipment manufacturing related companies have coordinated research, breakthrough a large number of technical and technological difficulties, successfully developed more than 2,200 sets Set) equipment. With the development of high-temperature reactor technology, the Institute of Nuclear Research continues to explore and innovate the collaborative mechanism between universities and enterprises. Led by Tsinghua University, together with leading domestic enterprises such as Huaneng Group, China Nuclear Industry Construction Group, Shanghai Electric Group, etc., they jointly established the “Advanced Collaborative Innovation Center for Nuclear Energy Technology” recognized by the Ministry of Education. The leap from "subcontracting" to "close cooperation" to "collaborative innovation".
So far, the world's first passive natural circulation integrated shell light water reactor-5MW low temperature nuclear heating reactor, the world's first inherently safe fourth-generation advanced nuclear energy system-10MW high temperature gas-cooled experimental reactor, the world The first commercial-scale fourth-generation advanced nuclear power plant-high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear power plant demonstration project, was successfully developed by the advanced nuclear energy technology innovation team of the Nuclear Research Institute of Tsinghua University.
Text / reporter Wang Wei