A NEXT GENERATION SODIUM-COOLED FAST REACTOR CONCEPT AND ITS R&D PROGRAM

Abstract

Critical issues in the development targets for the future fast reactor (FR) cycle system, including sodium-cooled FR were to ensure safety assurance, efficient utilization of resources, reduction of environmental burden, assurance of nuclear non-proliferation, and economic competitiveness. A promising design concept of sodium-cooled fast reactor JSFR is proposed aiming at fully satisfaction of the development targets for the next generation nuclear energy system. A roadmap toward JSFR commercialization is described, to be followed up in a new framework of the Fast reactor Cycle Technology development (FaCT) Project launched in 2006.