Status of the ASTRID Project

The ASTRID objections: → Technological demonstration reactor (a step before a First Of A Kind); → Integrating French and international SFRs feedback; → A GEN IV system. Safety: - Level at least equivalent to GEN III systems; - Progresses on Na reactors specificities; - Integrating FUKUSHIMA accident feedback; - Robustness of safety demonstration. Durability: - Need of Fast Breeder Reactors and a closed cycle; - Pu multi recycling to preserve natural resources; - The use of natural depleted uranium in France by FBRs allow producing electricity for few thousands of years. Operability: - Load factor of 80% or more after first "learning" years; - Significant progress concerning In Service Inspection & Repair (ISIR). Ultimate wastes transmutation: - Realization of demonstrations on minor actinides transmutation according to June 28, 2006 French Act on Wastes Management. A mastered investment cost; Non proliferation warranty. → Irradiation services and options test