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Conference Article: A review of the collaborative programme on the European Fast Reactor (EFR) and on the CAPRA activities

Asty, M. (CEA Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France))

Abstract

This paper describes the recent developments and activities concerning the European Fast Reactor (EFR) Collaborative Programme and the studies within the framework of activities under the CAPR4 (concept to amplify plutonium reduction in advanced fast reactors) study. The CAPRA project was initiated by CEA in February 1993. A team, with specialists from the relevant technical domains, was constituted and it was assigned the goal of performing by the end of 1994 the preliminary feasibility study of one or several fast reactors with as high a plutonium consumption as possible. In addition, they should be able to contribute to the destruction of minor actinides. The design companies were associated to the project from its initiation, plutonium burning cores being envisaged for the EFR design or for designs resulting from the EFR forward programme. At the start of the project, the electrical output of the reactor was considered as a parameter.

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key words: actinides; coordinated research programs; european union; fast reactors; feasibility studies; plutonium; reactor cores
Reference:
27. meeting of the International Working Group on Fast Reactors. Vienna (Austria). 17-19 May 1994
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
IAEA-TECDOC--791, pp:88-117