Experimental Breeder Reactor-I

I he use of sodium and sodium-potassium alloys as reactor coolants has been the subject of a substantial amount of research and development. This has been carried out by various laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission and subcontractors, in conjimction with nuclear plants such as the experimental breeder reactor and the prototype for the Seawolf power plant. A by-product of this work has been the development of new techniques and equipment for handling liquid metals. 

Experimental Breeder Reactor-1 (EBR-I), the FR that succeeded in generating electricity for the first time in the world. Then, four light bulbs were lit (Argonne National Laboratory 2002)... 

Idaho National Laboratory, EBR-I Fact Sheet, 08-GA50050-05-R3 R2-12,2006. https //factsheets. inl.gov/Fact%20Sheets/experimental-breeder-reactor-l.pdf. 

A landmark series of experiments was successfully completed in ANL-Idaho s Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) to demonstrate the capability of a metal-fueled reactor to accommodate severe accidents without scram with very benign consequences, i.e., no failure of fuel assemblies or core structures. In earlier designs, such event sequences were considered as potential, extremely low-probability initiating events leading to core disruption. Similar tests were performed in the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) with an oxide fuel configuration. 

The Compact Sodium-cooled Nuclear Reactor Facility (KNK) was an experimental nuclear power plant of 20 MW electric power erected on the premises of the Karlsruhe Research Center. The plant was initially run as KNK I with a thermal core between 1971 and 1974 and then, between 1977 and 1991, with a fast core as the KNK II fast breeder plant. 

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