IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and thermal reactors

IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and thermal reactors

Posted on 22 April 2012 by Barry Brook

This is the fourth and final part of the series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang.
Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the IFR a different — and highly successful — approach to fast neutron reactor technology and its associated fuel recycling.
These excerpts not only provide a fascinating insight into a truly sustainable form nuclear power; they also provide excellent reference material for refuting many of the spurious claims on the internet about IFR by people who don’t understand (or choose to wilfully misrepresent) this critically important technology.
For reference, here are the previous entries:
Part 1 (metal fuels and plutonium).
Part 2 (coolant choice and reactor configuration).
Part 3 (lessons learned from fast reactor capital costs).
http://bravenewclimate.com/2012/04/22/ifr-fad-13/