Innovative Fast Reactors
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2017) | Viewed by 101
Special Issue Editor
Interests: innovative nuclear reactor system; transmutation system, fusion blanket technology; thermal-hydraulics; corrosion of nuclear materials; liquid metal technology; solid electrolyte sensor; liquid metal magneto-hydrodynamics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Innovative Fast Reactors”. Fast reactors, such as the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), have been developed for a long time for sustainable future utilization of nuclear energy by means of fuel recycling. The requirements of Generation-IV fast reactors are, not only sustainability, but also safety, economy, proliferation resistance, and the reduction of environmental load. The accelerator-driven system is one of the minor actinide (MA) transmutation fast reactors for the reduction of environmental load. Unfortunately, large-scale sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR) have not yet been commercialized because of safety problems. In order to overcome the safety problems, various new and innovative concepts of fast reactors have been recently proposed from the viewpoint of inherent safety. This Special Issue will contain such innovative fast reactor concepts.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Lead- and lead-bismuth-cooled fast reactors (LFR);
- Liquid metal-cooled fast reactors including sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR);
- Reduced moderation water reactor (RMWR)
- Supercritical water-cooled fast reactors (SCWFR);
- Helium-cooled fast reactors (GFR);
- Molten salt-cooled fast reactors (MSFR);
- Accelerator-driven systems with lead-bismuth target (ADS)
Prof. Dr. Minoru Takahashi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- innovative reactor
- fast reactor
- inherent safety
- sustainability
- proliferation resistance
- transmutation
- minor actinide
