Talk:Natrium reactor

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 Definition:  A fast reactor using molten sodium as the coolant. Development funded by Bill Gates. Like the MCSFR, capable of burning spent nuclear fuel. [d] [e]
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Safety of Sodium-cooled reactors

Statement: by Robert Steinhaus, former physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the FaceBook forum Molten Salt Reactors
Sodium proponents make claims such as "walk away safe" (but in my opinion, make such claims are irresponsible and without good engineering evidence). I respect evidence and the factual accumulated record of multiple decades of reactor operating history. SFRs (Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors) have been built for now 70 years, and anyone having a serious interest should take the time to examine the operating safety record for SFRs as a reactor class. https://world-nuclear.org/.../fast-neutron-reactors.aspx

Conclusion - approximately half of the SFRs constructed over seven decades had their operating lives shortened by a safety-related accident or incident. This is a vastly inferior safety record to any other current reactor class. My specific safety concerns for sodium-cooled reactors are in The case for not building large numbers of Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors

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