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2 Responses To The U.S. BRC on Spent Nuclear Fuel

September 9, 2011 by Barry Brook
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The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear future was charged by President Barack Obama with recommending ways to move forward with used nuclear fuel in light of the closing of the Yucca Mountain used fuel repository project (details on NEI Notes). They released a 192-page draft in late July report that is currently open for... [read more]

IFR FaD 8 – Two TV documentaries and a new film on the Integral Fast Reactor

October 5, 2010 by Barry Brook
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Want to know more about the Integral Fast Reactor technology from the comfort of your lounge room chair? Then these two fascinating videos, recently transcoded and uploaded by Steve Kirsch to the “ifr.blp.tv” website, are for you. You can watch online, or download in .MP4 format (choose the format and then the download link below) for... [read more]

IFR FaD 3 – the LWR versus IFR fuel cycle

February 15, 2010 by Barry Brook
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(Yoon Chang and Barry Brook discuss the IFR over a good wine, June 2009). The following post in the Integral Fast Reactor Facts and Discussion series centres around two important diagrams prepared by Dr Yoon I. Chang – Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratories, a key figure in the development of the IFR between 1984... [read more]

IFR FAD 1 – Context

November 29, 2009 by Barry Brook
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As a complement to TCASE category, I’m starting another series of posts on the Integral Fast Reactor design for sustainable nuclear power, called IFR FAD (facts and discussion). There are many, many issues worth raising about this Gen IV nuclear power, and I hope to cover them here, in brief, management chunks. There won’t be any... [read more]

GE-Hitachi briefs Congress on PRISM reactor

June 28, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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Objective is to turn spent nuclear fuel into an asset PRISM is GE’s proprietary name for the Integral Fast Reactor, a design that was developed in Idaho by the nuclear scientists at Argonne West (ANL-W), a field office for Argonne National Laboratory located on the Arco desert 26 miles west of Idaho Falls, ID. In 2005 ANL-W was merged... [read more]