Argonne National Laboratory is developing Gen-IV nuclear reactors, including sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs).

There has not been a sodium-cooled reactor in the US since several experimental ... involving falsified reports and edited video footage of the accident, was so disgraceful that government ...

French nuclear start-up Hexana, spun out the Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA – Commissariat à l’énergie ...

It is for these reasons that fast reactors have been under development for decades in several countries, primarily as breeders and, in recent years, also as high-level waste burners. Sodium cooled ...

All U.S. nuclear reactors, which currently provide more than half of the nation's carbon-free power, are first- or ...

The design selected was a tank type sodium-cooled fast reactor ... stage of a demonstration reactor, encountered a spate of problems, including a sodium leak accident in 1995, and was barely ...

The Natrium technology features an advanced nuclear design with a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with a gigawatt-scale molten salt-based energy storage system. The energy storage capability allows ...

Japan has agreed to work with a U.S. company in technological cooperation to develop a sodium-cooled ... breeder reactor, which Japan decided to decommission after a series of accidents.

One Gen-IV reactor design at the vanguard of development is the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR ... how these systems will behave during an accident scenario.” Weathered’s primary experiment ...