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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