Safety Consideration for Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor “MONJU”

Compromising Safety: Design Choices and Severe Accident Possibilities in India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor

Weapon-Grade Plutonium Production Potential in the Indian Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor

India is building a 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor, which is scheduled to be operational by 2010. India has refused to accept international safeguards on this facility, raising concerns that the plutonium produced in its uranium blankets might be used to make nuclear weapons. Based on neutronics calculations for a detailed threedimensional model of the reactor, we estimate that up to 14...

Zone Wise Analysis of Cavitation in Pressure Drop Devices of Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor by Kurtosis Based Recurrent Network

Former Director, FRTG, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Chennai 603 102, Tamilnadu, India Email: [email protected] Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the quality of pressure drop devices (orifices), which is used for flow zoning in proto type fast breeder reactor (PFBR) by analyzing the occurrence of cavitation. The magnitude of root mean square (RMS) of the acoustic time s...

Sodium Leakage Experience at the Prototype Fbr Monju

Monju is Japan's prototype fast breeder reactor :280 MWe (714MWt), fueled with mixed oxides of plutonium and uranium, cooled by liquid sodium. Construction was started in 1985 and initial criticality was attained in April 1994 On 8th December 1995, sodium leakage from a secondary circuit occurred in a piping room of the reactor auxiliary building. The secondary sodium leaked through a temperatu...

Conceptual Design for a Fast Reactor Safety Test Facility

In May 1975 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory issued a preliminai.. report on a study of Fast Reactor Safety Test Facilities. The study addressed itself to three closely related tasks. 1. A review of the current understanding of fast reactor safety with the aim of identifying important areas of uncertainty which cannot be adequately resolved using analysis, out of pile and/or existing in-pile fa...