the PFBR utilizes fast neutrons for energy generation and employs liquid sodium as a coolant instead of water. This innovative design allows the reactor to “breed” more fuel than it consumes ...

Researchers with the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University have provided new insights into the workings of an advanced sodium-cooled fast reactor fuel assembly, having used a ...

The price tag for the expansion of Plant Vogtle from two of the traditional large reactors to four includes $11 billion in cost overruns. The project features a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with ...

Japan’s experience with sodium-cooled fast ... reactors, its Natrium reactor differs from the designs tested in Japan, Levesque said. Among those differences: Natrium isn’t intended to reuse ...

A test assembly ... sodium-cooled fast reactor and will have a design life of up to 50 years. It will be a multi-loop research reactor capable of testing lead, lead-bismuth and gas coolants, and ...

Atommash performed a test assembly of elements for the multi-purpose sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor ... on MOX (mixed uranium and plutonium oxide) fuel. Russia’s Research Institute of ...

by 2030 – including two BN-1200 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactors. The BN-1200 units are to be built at the Beloyarsk and South Urals nuclear power plants. The decree also approves building a ...

Global interest in fast reactors has been growing since their inception in 1960 because they can provide efficient, safe and sustainable energy. Their closed fuel cycle can support ... also as ...

Bo Feng, national technical director of DOE-NE's Fast Reactor Program and manager of Argonne’s Reactor and Fuel Cycle Analysis ... including sodium-cooled fast reactors — were limited to ...

Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors: Nuclear reactors that use liquid sodium as a coolant, facilitating a fast neutron spectrum for improved fuel efficiency. Core Disruptive Accident (CDA): A severe ...

The reactor ... closed fuel cycle technology, according to the report. About two months before, the magazine also reported that the world's largest multi-purpose sodium-cooled fast neutron ...