When I described the IFR in my first post I was referring to the EBR-II, sorry for the confusion. Although EBR-II was small, 20MWe, it did operate for 30 years and was a reliable base load power station in addition to being a research reactor.
There is a very detailed book on the EBR-II...
1) I am mainly interested in keeping reactor construction cost down. Economy of volume production generally means factory production and so keeping size down is important.
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3) Reprocessing is politically difficult in the US. I am trying to conceptualize a solution to some of the...
I am interested in lowering the cost of nuclear reactors through the use of novel reactor designs, particularly fast reactor designs.
The Integral Fast Reactor (“IFR”) is a good starting point for a discussion since it was a real reactor with a long operating history. A few features of the...