Nuclear Energy Handbook

Fast Neutron Reactors (IPPE)

external URL: http://www.rssi.ru/IPPE/General/bn.html

In the IPPE new concepts are being developed. They show a significant and even exceptional importance of fast reactors in the solution of such long-term problems as weapons-grade plutonium utilization, long-lived alpha-active nuclear waste burning, and production of uranium 233, a promising nuclear fuel for thermal reactors.

The concept of nuclear power with fast reactors being developed in the IPPE is aimed at general improvement of its safety, solution of ecological problems related to radioactive wastes, and radical expansion of sources of raw materials for nuclear power.

URL: http://www.rssi.ru/IPPE/General/bn.html
language: English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
country: Russian Federation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE-Obninsk) | Experimental fast reactor BOR-60
primary subject category: nuclear facilities | nuclear reactor data
secondary subject category: research institutes and laboratories | nuclear research institutes
INIS/ETDE category: specific nuclear reactors and associated plants
keywords: fast breeder reactors