Advanced Reactor Development: The LMR Integral Fast Reactor Program at Argonne
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 20 / Number 4P2 / December 1991 / Pages 573-579
Advanced Fission Reactors / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946900
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Reactor technology for the 21st Century must develop with characteristics that can now be seen to be important for the future, quite different from the things important when the fundamental materials and design choices for present reactors were made in the 1950s.
Argonne National Laboratory, since 1984, has been developing the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR). This paper will describe the way in which this new reactor concept came about; the technical, public acceptance, and environmental issues that are addressed by the IFR; the technical progress that has been made; and our expectations for this program in the near term.
