Nuclear Energy Handbook
EBR-II: Experimental Breeder Reactor II
external URL: http://www.anlw.anl.gov/divisions/facilities/EBR_II_Page/EBRII_Frameset.htm
| EBR-II was the backbone of the U.S. breeder reactor effort from1964 to 1994 when research was terminated. The EBR-II plant consisted of sodium-cooled reactor with a thermal power rating of 62.5 megawatts (MW), an intermediate closed loop of secondary sodium, and a steam plant that produced 19 MW of electrical power through a conventional turbine generator. The original emphasis in the design and operation of EBR-II was to demonstrate a complete breeder-reactor power plant with on-site reprocessing of metallic fuel. The demonstration was successfully carried out from 1964 to 1969, with the recycling of some 35,000 fuel elements. The emphasis was then shifted to testing fuels and materials for future, larger, liquid metal reactors in the radiation environment of the EBR-II reactor core. Its test mission was to operate as the IFR prototype. |
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| URL: | http://www.anlw.anl.gov/divisions/facilities/EBR_II_Page/EBRII_Frameset.htm
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| language: | English
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| originator: | university, laboratory or research organisation
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| country: | USA
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| access: | open to the general public
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| type of data: | textual information
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| type of site: | non-commercial site
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| related sites: | Argonne National Laboratory - West
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| primary subject category: | nuclear facilities
| nuclear reactor data
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| secondary subject category: | research institutes and laboratories
| nuclear research institutes
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| INIS/ETDE category: | specific nuclear reactors and associated plants
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| keywords: | fast breeder reactors
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