Proliferation Resistance Considerations within the Collaborative Project for a European Sodium Fast Reactor

The collaborative project for a European Sodium Fast Reactor (CP-ESFR) is an international project where 25 European partners developed R&D solutions and concepts for a European sodium fast reactor. The project was funded by the 7th EU Framework Programme and covered topics such that the fuel, the fuel element and the fuel cycle, the safety concepts, the reactor architectures and components and the balance of plant. Within sub-project 3, dedicated to safety, a task addressed proliferation resistance considerations. The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) Proliferation Resistance & Physical Protection (PR&PP) Evaluation Methodology has been selected as the general framework for this work, complemented by punctual aspects of IAEA-INPRO PR methodology and other literature studies in particular for material type characterization. In the paper the main core characteristics and the so called working horses, for a loop and a pool Sodium fast reactor concept are firstly presented, by highlighting those features more relevant for the proliferation resistance. The activities carried out in the project for its proliferation resistance considerations are then illustrated.

ALIM Fatih;  COJAZZI Giacomo;  RENDA Guido; 

2013-07-22

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, ITU

JRC79455

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