CAREM: A Small Electricity Producing Reactor

Abstract

The CAREM reactor is a small electricity producing nuclear reactor. It's power is 15 Mwe. It uses natural convection cooling, a self-pressurized integrated primary circuit and passive emergency systems. It is a modular reactor, each module being factory made and tested. In this way, the only work that must be carried on site is the assembly and interconnection of the modules.The features of the CAREM reactor made it an extremely safe reactor, which is economically competitive in the range of 15-150 Mwe.