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NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, Volume. 48, Issue 7, 070012(2025)

Conceptual design and overall scheme for a vehicle-mounted mobile megawatt-scale nuclear power system for heat pipe cooled reactor

Henglong LIN¹, Zeguang LI^1、*, Jun YANG¹, Zilin SU¹, Huifu WANG¹, Pengzhi ZHANG¹, Weilin ZHUGE², and Hongsheng JIANG²

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¹Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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Henglong LIN, Zeguang LI, Jun YANG, Zilin SU, Huifu WANG, Pengzhi ZHANG, Weilin ZHUGE, Hongsheng JIANG. Conceptual design and overall scheme for a vehicle-mounted mobile megawatt-scale nuclear power system for heat pipe cooled reactor[J]. NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, 2025, 48(7): 070012

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Category: Special Issue on The First Academic Annual Conference of the Research Reactor and Innovative Reactor Association of Chinese Nuclear Society and Advanced Nuclear Power System Reactor Engineering

Received: Dec. 20, 2024

Accepted: --

Published Online: Sep. 15, 2025

The Author Email: Zeguang LI (LIZeguang)

DOI:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2025.hjs.48.240527

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