Sodium Fast Reactors with Closed Fuel Cycle

This book presents the state of the art of sodium-cooled fast reactors with closed fuel cycles, offering in-depth coverage of reactor physics, materials, design, safety analysis, validations, engineering, construction, and commissioning aspects. The text addresses design essentials with a focus on reactor assembly including core and coolant circuits, fuel handling, instrumentation, control, energy conversion, and containment systems. It provides guidelines for concept selection, design, analysis, and validation, as well as design codes with sufficient background to ensure a solid understanding of the underlying mechanical basis.

Sodium Fast Reactors with Closed Fuel Cycle delivers a detailed discussion of an important technology that is being harnessed for commercial energy production in many parts of the world. Presenting the state of the art of sodium-cooled fast reactors with closed fuel cycles, this book:

• Offers in-depth coverage of reactor physics, materials, design, safety analysis, validations, engineering, construction, and commissioning aspects
• Features a special chapter on allied sciences to highlight advanced reactor core materials, specialized manufacturing technologies, chemical sensors, in-service inspection, and simulators
• Addresses design essentials with a focus on reactor assembly including core and coolant circuits, fuel handling, instrumentation and control, energy conversion, and containment systems
• Provides design codes and standards with sufficient background information to ensure a solid understanding of the underlying mechanics
• Supplies guidelines for concept selection, design, analysis, and validation

Sodium Fast Reactors with Closed Fuel Cycle is a valuable reference for industry professionals involved in the construction of fast-reactor power plants, as well as graduate-level engineering students of the design and development of sodium-cooled fast-reactor systems and components.