Inert gases are used as coolants in gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
The EM2 is a gas-cooled fast reactor, which uses helium as a coolant.
Having started along the path of gas-cooled reactors, the nuclear industry stuck with them when it came to looking for an improved model.
The proposed gas-cooled reactor is said to "burn" plutonium, eliminating the dangerous nuclear bomb material.
As such, he was the driving force behind the advanced gas-cooled reactors, which have led to today's more efficient nuclear power.
For two decades, a very small, high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor has operated successfully in West Germany.
Electricity is produced through the use of two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR).
Instead, Britain decided in the 1960's to produce its own advanced gas-cooled reactors.
The goal was to gain operational experience with a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor.
So advanced gas-cooled reactors are given support.