The Collaborative Project on the European Sodium Fast Reactor and its Proliferation Resistance Evaluation

The Collaborative Project on the European Sodium Fast Reactor (CP-ESFR) is an international project where 26 European partners develop R&D solutions for a European Sodium Fast Reactors concept. The Project is funded by the 7th EU Framework programme and cover topics such that the fuel, the fuel element and the fuel cycle, the safety concepts, the reactors architecture and the components and the balance of plants. Within the Subproject 3, dedicated to the safety concepts and to proliferation resistance and physical protection issues, a dedicated task addresses proliferation resistance issues. The paper recalls firstly the scope and objective of the CP-ESFR project and illustrates briefly its structure. The main core features and the so called working horses, for a loop and a pool Sodium fast reactor concept are presented, by highlighting the features more relevant for the proliferation resistance aspects. The activities carried out in the project for its proliferation resistance evaluation are then illustrated: these involved mainly material type consideration on the possible diversion targets, safeguards by design and safeguardability considerations.

ALIM Fatih;  COJAZZI Giacomo;  RENDA Guido; 

2013-04-19

ENS

JRC71856

ISBN 978-92-95064-14,