The IFR status and prospects
Conference
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· Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)
OSTI ID:6683729
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
The integral fast reactor (IFR) concept consists of a metal-fueled, liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor with its associated pyrometallurgical recovery and recycle of plutonium and higher actinides. The feasibility and operational stability of a liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor has been amply demonstrated in many countries. A comprehensive understanding of the irradiation effects on metal fuels permits extremely high fuel burnup without failures. Interest in the IFR concept grew rapidly when (in 1986) the benign response of the IFR was demonstrated by deliberately putting Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) through unprotected loss-of-flow and loss-of-heat-sink transients; these transients were comfortably controlled by the inherent feedback of the system.
- OSTI ID:
- 6683729
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-921102--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States) Journal Volume: 66
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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