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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by FCWMD|Cosponsored by NNPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Benjamin B. Cipiti
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Michael Browne
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (ANS)
The Material Protection Accounting and Control Technologies program has completed a 2020 milestone to demonstrate Safeguards and Security by Design (SSBD) for a notional electrochemical reprocessing facility. The work has been outlined in a series of nine papers in a special issue of the Journal of Nuclear Materials Management. This panel session will describe key lessons learned from the SSBD process, the materials accountancy and physical protection approach, measurement technology development, and experimental testing. The approach and tools used in this work can be applied to other nuclear fuel cycle facilities in the future.
Benjamin Stromberg
Sandia
Nathaniel Hoyt
EGDS
Ammon Williams
Philip Lafreniere
LANL
Jamie Coble
Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville
Benjamin Cipiti
Sandia National Laboratories
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