Nuclear Energy Handbook
Links to Fast Reactor related sites
Featured web site: IAEA's project on Technology Advances in Fast Reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems for Actinide and Long-lived Fission Product Transmutation
| 1 | Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) |  |
| #307: http://www.jnc.go.jp/ | ||
| The Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) was formally inaugurated on 1-October 1998; its Mission is to perform the development of the advanced technology required to establish the complete nuclear fuel cycle. JNC's Key Projects are those which form the basis of the fuel cycle, these are: the fast breeder reactor (FBR), advanced reprocessing, plutonium fuel fabrication and the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. | ||
| country: Japan | ||
| language: English | Japanese | ||
| 2 | Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley | |
| #940: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/ | ||
| country: USA | ||
| language: English | ||
| 3 | MONJU prototype reactor (JNC) | |
| #1666: http://www.jaea.go.jp/jnc/jncweb/02r-d/02index.html | ||
| MONJU is the prototype reactor of the Japanese fast breeder reactor project. This English language site has been created to explain how fast reactors work, why Japan is committed to the development of this technology and how it can be used as a major contributor to electricity supply in the next century. | ||
| country: Japan | ||
| language: English | ||
| 4 | KALIMER (KAERI) | |
| #1821: http://www.kaeri.re.kr/engnew/ | ||
| KAERI is developing the Korea Advanced LIquid MEtal Reactor, or KALIMER, and the current plan calls for the construction of a prototype demonstration reactor in the early 21st century. | ||
| country: Korea, Republic of | ||
| language: Korean | English | ||
| 5 | Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) | |
| #1822: 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. | ||
| country: USA | ||
| language: English | ||
| 6 | The Unofficial IFR Home Page (University of California at Berkeley) | |
| #1824: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/designs/ifr/ | ||
| The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) is a new reactor concept that was being developed by Argonne National Laboratory-West. Some of the main features of the IFR are metallic fuel, a liquid metal coolant, and on-site fuel recycling. | ||
| country: USA | ||
| language: English | ||
| 7 | Fast Neutron Reactors (IPPE) | |
| #1825: 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. | ||
| country: Russian Federation | ||
| language: English | ||
| 8 | FR & ADS Technology Development | |
| #1946: http://www.iaea.org/inis/aws/fnss/ | ||
| This is the web site of IAEA's project on: Technology Advances in Fast Reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems for Actinide and Long-lived Fission Product Transmutation. | ||
| country: International Atomic Energy Agency | Austria | ||
| language: English | ||
| 9 | Fast Reactor Data Retrieval and Knowledge Preservation | |
| #2462: http://www.iaea.org/inis/aws/fnss/auxiliary/iaea.html | ||
| The IAEA initiative seeks to establish a comprehensive, international inventory of fast reactor data and knowledge, which would be sufficient to form the basis for fast reactor development in 30 to 40 years from now. | ||
| country: International Atomic Energy Agency | Austria | ||
| language: English | ||
| 10 | Databases of IAEA's Nuclear Energy Department | |
| #2585: http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/ne_databases.html | ||
| The Department of Nuclear Energy maintains and updates a number of databases. Most of them are publicly available. Below is the list of databases and links to web pages of the databases if they have one. The list is categorized in working areas. | ||
| country: International Atomic Energy Agency | Austria | ||
| language: English | ||
| 11 | Der Schnelle Brüter | |
| #2767: http://www.schneller-brueter.de/index2.htm | ||
| Simple but comprehensive introduction to the subject of fast breader reactors. | ||
| country: Germany | ||
| language: German | ||
| 12 | UIC Briefing Papers (Uranium Information Centre) | |
| #2818: http://www.uic.com.au/nip.htm | ||
| The Uranium Information Centre was set up in 1978. Its purpose is to increase Australian public understanding of uranium mining and nuclear electricity generation. The Centre is funded by companies involved in uranium exploration, mining and export in Australia. | ||
| country: Australia | ||
| language: English | ||