Bystryi Reactor

Originally, the idea for creating fast breeder reactors came in the post-WWII era and was intended to ensure the sufficient supply of uranium (U) for the rapidly expanding nuclear program of the USSR. Alexander Leypunsky was one of the initial proponents of the idea and received government support in 1949. By 1955, the USSR constructed its first fast reactor Bystryi Reactor or Fast Reactor (BR)-l at the Instimte of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) in Obninsk, Russia. This essentially was a critical assembly with a weapons Pu core and a U blanket. It had no coolant and essentially zero power. After the BR-1, a series of experimental sodium-cooled fast reactors, including BR-2, 5, and 10, was rapidly built (Pshakin, 2010). 

SVBR Svintsovo-vismutovyi bystryi reactor (or in English lead—bismuth fast reactor )... 

In Russia, two initiatives are currently being pursued. One of these is known as the SVBR (Svintsovo-Vismutovyi Bystryi Reaktor or Lead—Bismuth Fast Reactor ) (Zrodnikov et al., 2009). The SVBR-100 is generally considered a foUow-on technology to the prior submarine propulsion technology and is a small reactor cooled by LBE. The second major initiative, known as the BREST Bystry Reaktor so Svintsovym Teplonositelem or Fast Reactor with Lead Coolant ) (Dragunov et al., 2012), is a medium-sized reactor cooled by pure lead and detailed further in this chapter as one of the reference LFR reactor systems in the Generalion IV program (GIF-LFR-pSSC, 2014). 

SVBR Svintsovo-Vismutovyi Bystryi Reaktor in Russian, or Lead—Bismuth Fast Reactor ... 

Liquid lead—bismuth eutectic (LBE) [44.5% Pb and 55.5% bismuth (Bi)] in liquid metal-cooled reactors, for example, in Russian Svintsovo-Vismutovyi Bystryi Reaktor (SVBR) and... 

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