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Rudolf Schulten

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German physicist (1923-1996)

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Rudolf Schulten was a German physicist who was professor at RWTH Aachen University and the main developer of the pebble bed reactor design, which was originally invented by Farrington Daniels.

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1989Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1987Werner von Siemens Ring
1975Grashof Commemorative Medal
1972Otto-Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main

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Rudolf Schulten was a German physicist who was professor at RWTH Aachen University and the main developer of the pebble bed reactor design, which was originally invented by Farrington Daniels. Schulten's concept compacts silicon carbide-coated uranium granules into hard, billiard-ball-like graphite spheres to be used as fuel for a new high temperature, helium-cooled type of nuclear reactor.

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Germany
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 1996 · aged 72
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