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Liquid metal cooled reactor

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was the first liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor and used mercury coolant, thought to be the obvious choice since it is liquid at room temperature. However, because of disadvantages including high toxicity, high vapor pressure even at room temperature, low boiling point producing noxious fumes when
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To date, most fast neutron reactors have been liquid metal cooled and so are called liquid metal cooled fast reactors (LMFRs). When configured as a breeder reactor (e.g. with a breeding blanket), such reactors are called liquid metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs).
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sodium-potassium alloy) do not corrode steel to any significant degree and are compatible with many nuclear fuels, allowing for a wide choice of structural materials. NaK was used as the coolant in the first breeder reactor prototype, the
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above normal operating conditions. However, because lead has a high melting point and a high vapor pressure, it is tricky to refuel and service a lead cooled reactor. The melting point can be lowered by alloying the lead with
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Further advantages of tin are the high boiling point and the ability to build a crust even over liquid tin helps to cover poisonous leaks and keeps the coolant in and at the reactor. It has been tested by
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of sodium also causes these liquids to become intensely radioactive during operation, though the half-life is short and therefore their radioactivity does not pose an additional disposal concern.
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gases. The reactor was repaired and returned to service in September 1960 and ended operation in 1964. The reactor produced a total of 37 GW-h of electricity.
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In July 1959, the Sodium Reactor Experiment suffered a serious incident involving the partial melting of 13 of 43 fuel elements and a significant release of
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in a 1995 accident and fire. Sodium is also the coolant used in the Russian BN reactor series and the Chinese CFR series in commercial operation today.
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Sodium and NaK do, however, ignite spontaneously on contact with air and react violently with water, producing hydrogen gas. This was the case at the
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Gossé, Stéphane (June 2014). "Thermodynamic assessment of solubility and activity of iron, chromium, and nickel in lead bismuth eutectic".
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today is not used as a coolant for working reactors because it builds a crust, it can be a useful additional or replacement coolant at
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allows operation at lower temperatures while preventing the freezing of the metal coolant in a lower temperature range (
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with high thermodynamic efficiency. This makes them attractive for improving power output, cost effectiveness, and
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Weeks, J. R.; Romano, A. J. (1969). "Liquidus curves and corrosion of Fe, Ti, Zr, and Cu in liquid Bi–Pb alloys".
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Lead has excellent neutron properties (reflection, low absorption) and is a very potent radiation shield against
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Handbook on heavy liquid metal technology. Prepared in the frame of the OECD/NEA working party of the fuel cycle
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Bunker, Merle E. "Early Reactors From Fermi’s Water Boiler to Novel Power Prototypes" a chapter in
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Due to their high thermal conductivity, metal coolants remove heat effectively, enabling high
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Beside its highly corrosive character, its main disadvantage is the formation by
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nuclear power plant. It was commissioned in 1957, but it had leaks in its
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Liquid metals, being electrically highly conductive, can be moved by
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is highly corrosive to most metals used for structural materials.
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Suitable liquid metal coolants must have a low neutron capture
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submarines used reactors cooled by lead-bismuth eutectic and
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Fazio, Concetta; Li, Ning; Na, Byung-Chan (2005-07-01).
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power generation. They have also been used to power
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liquid metal
breeder reactor
nuclear submarines
power density
boiling point
power conversion cycles
fuel efficiency
electromagnetic pumps
alkali metals

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thermal-
fast-neutron reactors
cross section
operating temperature
boiling points
loss-of-coolant accident
vapor pressure
ambient pressure
Melting point
Boiling point
Mercury
Sodium
NaK
Lead

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