Improved safety fast reactor with "reservoir" for delayed neutrons generating

The paper considers the possibility to improve safety of fast reactors by using weak neutron absorber with large atomic weight as a material for external neutron reflector and for internal cavity in the reactor core (the neutron "reservoir") where generation of some additional "delayed" neutron takes place. The effects produced by the external neutron reflector and the internal neutron "reservoir" on kinetic behavior of fast reactors are inter-compared. It is demonstrated that neutron kinetics of fast reactors with such external and internal zones becomes the quieter as compared with neutron kinetics of thermal reactors. (paper)