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    The integral fast reactor (IFR), originally the advanced liquid-metal reactor (ALMR), is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron...
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    reactor (LMFR) technology using mixed oxide fuel (MOX), and one based on the metal-fueled integral fast reactor. Several sodium-cooled fast reactors have...
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    IV reactor types are FBRs: Gas-cooled fast reactor cooled by helium. Sodium-cooled fast reactor based on the existing LMFBR and integral fast reactor designs...
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  • IV LMFR, one based on oxide fuel, the other on the metal-fueled integral fast reactor. Lead has excellent neutron properties (reflection, low absorption)...
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    A fast-neutron reactor (FNR) or fast-spectrum reactor or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is...
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    implementation of the Integral Fast Reactor developed by Argonne National Laboratory between 1984 and 1994. It is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, based on the...
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    reactor – Russian sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor BN-1200 reactor – Fast breeder nuclear reactor under development in Russia Integral Fast Reactor –...
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  • reactor types Generation II reactor Generation III reactor Integral fast reactor Stable salt reactor Liquid fluoride thorium reactor Breeder reactor Small...
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    reactor. Testing of the original breeder cycle ran until 1969, after which time the reactor was used to test concepts for the Integral Fast Reactor concept...
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  • In the nuclear power field, an integral reactor is a nuclear reactor design principle where the reactor core, primary cooling loop, steam generators and...
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  • reuses of its reactor grade plutonium. Similar reactor concepts and fuel cycling, with the most well known being the Integral Fast Reactor are regarded...
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  • is not possible in thermal reactor. In contrast to thermal-neutron reactors, integral fast reactors (IFRs) operate using fast neutrons and are designed...
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    Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) and AP1000 units (see Nuclear Power 2010 Program). The integral fast reactor (IFR) was built, tested and evaluated...
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    large or small. The reactor can adopt a loop, modular or integral configuration. Variations include: The molten-salt fast reactor (MSFR) is a proposed...
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    The lead-cooled fast reactor is a nuclear reactor design that uses molten lead or lead-bismuth eutectic coolant. These materials can be used as the primary...
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    the other hand, if actinides are destroyed using a fast reactor, such as an Integral Fast Reactor, then the fuel will most likely not be exposed to many...
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  • recycling reactor waste into fuel, demonstrating it paired with the EBR-II and then proposed commercializing it in the Integral Fast Reactor. The latter...
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    nucleartourist.com. Integral fast reactor Tardiff, A. N. (1 April 1962). SOME ASPECTS OF THE WTR AND SL-1 ACCIDENTS (Report). Division of Reactor Development...
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    designs include generation IV, thermal-neutron reactors, fast-neutron reactors, molten salt, and gas-cooled reactor models. Commercial SMRs have been designed...
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    high-level waste until decommissioning. For example, the Integral Fast Reactor and Molten Salt Reactor fuel cycles are based on on-site pyroprocessing. It...
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  • The BREST reactor is a Russian conceptual design for a lead-cooled fast reactor based on a generation IV reactor. Two designs are planned, the BREST-300...
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  • CFR-600 (category Fast-neutron reactors)
    The CFR-600 (Xiapu fast reactor pilot project) is a sodium-cooled pool-type fast-neutron nuclear reactor under construction in Xiapu County, Fujian province...
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  • an agricultural and food science research institution Integral fast reactor, a nuclear reactor design International Federation of Robotics International...
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    proliferative than most reactors, but can even be operated as an "actinide incinerator". The American IFR (Integral Fast Reactor) can also be operated in...
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    A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with...
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  • Reactor)". Reactors Designed by Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne National Laboratory. Retrieved 3 May 2012. "The Integral Fast Reactor". Reactors Designed...
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  • Thumbnail for John Kerry
    Station. In 1994, Kerry led opposition to continued funding for the Integral Fast Reactor, which resulted in the end of funding for the project. However,...
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    The BN-600 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It has...
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  • fission processes. The basic idea is to use high-energy fast neutrons from a fusion reactor to trigger fission in non-fissile fuels like U-238 or Th-232...
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    reactor Gas-cooled fast reactor Generation IV reactor Integral Fast Reactor Sodium-cooled fast reactor Mueller, Alex C. (2013). "Transmutation of Nuclear...
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