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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Westinghouse announces Lead Cooled Fast Reactor initiative


Westinghouse announces Lead Cooled Fast Reactor initiative

On Friday, October 9, Westinghouse announced that it had launched a program to work with the US Department of Energy in the development of a new, lead-cooled fast reactor (commonly, "LFR") which would combine the advantages of lead cooling (high temperatures, primarily, as well as lower pressures) with advanced accident tolerant fuel to push the Gen-IV envelope to what it perceives as Gen-V --  a term that seems to imply the "state of the art" in perhaps 30 or 50 years down the road.
http://atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com/2015/10/westinghouse-announces-lead-cooled-fast.html

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