The Sodium Reactor Experiment was a pioneering nuclear power plant built by Atomics International at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Simi Valley...

years, about ten low-power nuclear reactors operated at SSFL, (including the Sodium Reactor Experiment, the first reactor in the United States to generate...

commercial nuclear power reactors beginning with the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) and a range of compact nuclear reactors culminating with the Systems...

program. The Sodium Reactor Experiment was an experimental sodium-cooled graphite-moderated nuclear reactor (A Sodium-Graphite Reactor, or SGR) sited...

A sodium-cooled fast reactor is a fast neutron reactor cooled by liquid sodium. The initials SFR in particular refer to two Generation IV reactor proposals...

weapons-grade plutonium. As of 2025[update], every fast reactor has used a liquid metal coolant, typically sodium-cooled or lead-cooled. This allows high thermal...

the gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR), the lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR), the molten salt reactor (MSR), the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), the supercritical-water-cooled...

The Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) was an experimental nuclear reactor designed to test the feasibility of fluid-fuel, high-temperature, high-power-density...

The BN-800 reactor (Russian: реактор БН–800) is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk...

"The Sodium Reactor Experiment" (PDF). Retrieved 22 April 2012. Rockwell International Corporation, Energy Systems Group. "Sodium Reactor Experiment Decommissioning...

The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is a 500 MWe sodium-cooled, fast breeder reactor that is being constructed at the same site as the Madras Atomic...

fast reactor Lead-cooled fast reactor Molten-salt reactor Sodium-cooled fast reactor Supercritical water reactor Very-high-temperature reactor Generation...

fifteen years. The fission reactor uses uranium-235 to generate heat that is carried to the Stirling converters with passive sodium heat pipes. In 2018, positive...

Edward R. Murrow's See It Now television show. The reactor, called the Sodium Reactor Experiment was built by the Atomics International division of North...

Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) was primarily motivated by the technology's compact size, while the 1960s Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) aimed...

and melt. The reactor at EBR-I suffered a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test on 29 November 1955. The Sodium Reactor Experiment in Santa Susana...

designed, built and operated the Sodium Reactor Experiment, which in 1957 became the first United States commercial nuclear reactor to supply electricity to a...

these reactors operate with fast neutrons. The concept is generally similar to sodium-cooled fast reactors, and most liquid-metal fast reactors have used...

Regulatory Commission. Topical Seminar Series on Sodium Fast Reactors. 3 May 2007 "Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR)" (PDF). Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S....

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...

increased costs. In 1969, a different type of reactor, Alvin Weinberg's molten salt reactor experiment at ORNL, was shut down, after proving that molten...

(military), Sellafield, England, in 1957 (see Windscale fire) Sodium Reactor Experiment, Santa Susana Field Laboratory (civilian), California, United...

Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) was a sodium-cooled fast reactor designed, built and operated by Argonne National Laboratory at the National Reactor Testing...

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...

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...

The Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) was an experimental molten-salt reactor research reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge...

fast neutron reactors of 4th generation (molten salts reactors, metal-cooled reactors (sodium-cooled fast reactor, or lead-cooled fast reactor). Fast breeder...

site. The IFR was a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) is its closest surviving fast breeder reactor, a type of Generation IV reactor. The U.S. Department...

PFBR – 500MWe Sodium cooled fast breeder nuclear reactor, under construction. Expected completion 2015. FBTR – 40 MW Fast Breeder Test Reactor, uses mixed...

of energy accidents, there have been at least 56 accidents at nuclear reactors in the United States (defined as incidents that either resulted in the...