The integral fast reactor (IFR, originally advanced liquid-metal reactor) is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron moderator...
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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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based on the existing liquid-metal FBR (LMFBR) and integral fast reactor designs. Lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) based on Soviet naval propulsion units. FBRs...
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the gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR), the lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR), the molten salt reactor (MSR), the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), the...
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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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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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The lead-cooled fast reactor is a nuclear reactor design that use molten lead or lead-bismuth eutectic coolant. These materials can be used as the primary...
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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. 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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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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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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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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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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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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Nuclear fusion–fission hybrid (redirect from Fusion–fission hybrid reactor)
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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gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR) system is a nuclear reactor design which is currently in development. Classed as a Generation IV reactor, it features a fast-neutron...
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Nuclear meltdown (redirect from Reactor meltdown)
melted, it cannot be damaged. Advanced liquid metal reactors, such as the U.S. Integral Fast Reactor and the Russian BN-350, BN-600, and BN-800, all have...
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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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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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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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Safer Use of Nuclear Power: Role of Integral Fast Reactor"). His research paper on the role of the Integral Fast Reactor was published in January 2017. Nobuo...
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Plutonium-239 (section In nuclear power reactors)
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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The Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) is a nuclear power plant design targeted at developing a commercial product for the small modular reactor (SMR)...
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IV, thermal-neutron reactors, fast-neutron reactors, molten salt, and gas-cooled reactor models. Military specified small reactors were first designed...
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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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Reactor)". Reactors Designed by Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne National Laboratory. Retrieved 3 May 2012. "The Integral Fast Reactor". Reactors Designed...
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Nuclear fuel cycle (redirect from Reactor refueling)
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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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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The light-water reactor (LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator;...
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containment dome. The integral fast reactor was a fast breeder reactor run by the Argonne National Laboratory. It was a sodium cooled reactor capable of withstanding...
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