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Conference Article: The status of fast reactor technology development in China

Xu Mi (China Inst. of Atomic Energy, Beijing (China))

Abstract

Delayed almost 20 months, it is still waiting to win the approval of the State Planning Commission for the Chinese Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) project. Some meetings to demonstrate the necessity to execute now the program of the CEFR design and construction have been conducted in China. Fortunately the positive conclusion has been obtained, which would be an important promotion to win the approval. Based on the validation and some optimization of the conceptual design, the preliminary or technical design of the CEFR has been started in the early of 1995 with some special requirements on reactor safety and impact to environment. Concerning the research and development of FBR technology, some progresses on sodium technology, materials, fuels, sodium instrumentations etc. have been gained and briefly described in this paper.

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key words: china; construction; design; fast reactors; feasibility studies; nuclear fuels; planning; reactor instrumentation; reactor materials; reactor safety; sodium
Reference:
28. meeting of the International Working Group on Fast Reactors. Vienna (Austria). 9-11 May 1995
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
IAEA-TECDOC--876, pp:16-33