Abstract:
Based on the nuclear strategies and technical plans, Japan, Europe, Canada, Russia, China and other countries are devoted to the R&D of the supercritical water cooled reactor(SCWR) technology and have achieved lots of progress. This paper summarizes the international activities of SCWR from the view of the system development, discusses the outline of the participation of China in GIF-SCWR and its future plan, and provides some constructive suggestions for further development of SCWR R&D in China.