The British government has selected a team including the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to develop a high temperature gas reactor (HTGR), eying a demonstration of the next-generation nuclear technology in the 2030s.
The team, which includes the Japanese-government-backed JAEA and Britain's National Nuclear Laboratory, will conduct preliminary studies on the scale of the reactor and its power generation costs, among other things.
The British government plans to allocate the team about 750,000 pounds (about 120 million yen) in research funds.
