Sentences with phrase «fast reactor system»

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In addition to its unique fuel cycle, the TerraPower design employs a high - temperature, liquid metal core cooling technology suited to a breeder reactor with «fast» neutron activity, rather than today's predominant reactors whose water cooling systems slow neutrons.

As a result of numerous fires from leaking systems, operating sodium - cooled fast reactors to date have been shut down more than they have run.

Also, recycling nuclear fuel (as is often but not always called for in fast reactor fuel cycles) brings up proliferation concerns that inspired the Jimmy Carter administration to cancel a large US effort to develop a fast - reactor system.

An application case representative of an assembly of the low void effect sodium fast reactor ASTRID is used to study the physics of this kind of system, illustrating the interesting capabilities provided by this approach and highlighting new possible calculation schemes.

This requires very effective reactor and fuel cycle strategies, including fast reactors (FRs) and / or accelerator - driven, sub-critical systems.