such as steam generators. As a result of numerous fires from leaking systems, operating sodium-cooled fast reactors to date have been shut down more than they have run. "You can't take the top off ...

Yet critics and agitators are ignoring the biggest nuclear risk of all: the inherently dangerous nature of fast ... sodium fire. The follow-on BN-600 reactor was designed with its steam generators ...

Beloyarsk 4 is a BN-800 fast neutron reactor designed by OKBM Afrikantov which will use liquid sodium to transfer heat from the reactor core to a water system that drives a steam turbine and generator ...

One of the latest to emerge is the SLIMM – the Scalable LIquid Metal–cooled small Modular reactor. This is a fast reactor that uses liquid sodium (Na ... in super-heated steam Rankine cycles ...

And while the variety of fast-reactor ... the steam generator with a heat exchanger and turbine operating with pressurized nitrogen. Finally, CEA sought to limit fire hazards arising from sodium ...

Prototype fast reactors have been running since the 1970s, but they use a sodium ... a water-cooled core that would stop itself if it started overheating and the water turned to steam.

Sodium‑ or lead‑cooled fast reactors operate at atmospheric pressure with metal coolants that boil above 1,500 °C, eliminating the risk of water flashing to steam. Fast neutrons also consume ...

The China Experimental Fast Reactor has been restarted and reconnected to the grid, marking its entry into its high-power operation phase. The sodium-cooled, pool-type fast ... including a dynamic ...

The effort marks another major step for the burgeoning advanced nuclear industry, which celebrated the groundbreaking of TerraPower’s Kemmerer 1, a pioneering sodium-cooled fast reactor ...