Building design, commercial future

The prototype FBR MONJU was constructed by former JNC to demonstrate electricity generation by FBRs and build sufficient experience with sodium cooled power plants, aiming at their commercialization in Japan in the future. The technologies gained through these experiences support the base of the 4S design as a sodium cooled reactor. 

The CEGB want the most tried system in order to secure the timely delivery and operation of nuclear power stations in the 1980s. They have had to conclude that the LWR has no present equal. The capacity ordered in 1973 was about 40,000 MW. The CEGB believe that to avoid repeating past failures the UK needs a radically new approach to design, manufacture and construction for any future reactor system and that PWR is the most developed in this respect. For no other reactor system is there a comparable demonstration of the ability of manufacturers to build on a commercial basis. ... 

In summary, numerous research efforts have been made to develop poled polymers for practical applications, and the future of this technology depends on the joint efforts of material scientists, device designers, and process engineers. If we can build best of the best all into one system, the new devices based on polymers could be commercially available in the near future. 

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