sodium-cooled reactor

Some sodium-cooled reactors like the BN-600 have sodium pools instead.

The Atomic Energy Commission historians' account of the sodium-cooled reactor experience was:

These sodium-cooled reactors, which would not come on line until mid-century, produce more energy per unit of fuel than nuclear reactors currently in operation.

Sodium-cooled reactors have included:

BOR-60 - sodium-cooled reactor at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dmitrovgrad.

In order to standardize the reactors in the fleet, the submarine's sodium-cooled reactor was removed starting in 1958 and replaced with a pressurized water reactor.

ASTRID, France, project for a 600 MWe sodium-cooled reactor.

The purpose of the Sodium Reactor Experiment was to demonstrate the feasibility of a sodium-cooled reactor as the heat source for a commercial power reactor to produce electricity.

It builds on two closely related existing projects, the LMFBR and the Integral Fast Reactor, with the objective of producing a fast-spectrum, sodium-cooled reactor.

The second is a medium to large (500-1,500 MWe) sodium-cooled reactor with mixed uranium-plutonium oxide fuel, supported by a fuel cycle based upon advanced aqueous processing at a central location serving a number of reactors.

The main objective of the event is to acquire knowledge on a new generation of nuclear reactors, including gas-cooled fast neutron reactors, new sodium-cooled reactor designs, materials development for high temperatures and problems related to high temperature reactors.

The Soviets built and built and built - graphite reactors, pressurized water reactors, sodium-cooled reactors, submarine reactors, floating reactors, "portable" reactors, a giant reactor factory that sank in the mud and on and on.

But if this was a Russian attack sub it was most likely what the West called an Alfa, a small boat designed for high-speed interceptions ... and the pumps for an Alfa's liquid sodium-cooled reactor were distinctive, and extremely noisy.