Published 1977 | Version v1
Book

French program on LMFBR cladding materials development

Creators

  • 1. Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires, Saclay, France

Description

The development of fast breeder reactors is strongly supported in France. The construction of the first reactor of commercial size (1200 MWe) called Super Phenix has been decided and the count-down has already started. As far as metallurgists are concerned, the materials constitutive of the core have already had to be decided upon. The problems at hand to date concern the most correct prediction of burn-up that can be attained and the preparation of the choices for the second core of this reactor and for the first core of the following ones. A brief description is given of research and development on these materials involving various teams in several centers of the CEA, in Cadarache, Grenoble, Marcoule, Fontenay and Saclay

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc.
Imprint Place
New York
Imprint Title
Radiation effects in breeder reactor structural materials
Journal Page Range
p. 1-11.

Conference

Title
Conference on radiation effects in breeder reactor structural materials.
Dates
19 - 23 Jun 1977.
Place
Scottsdale, AZ, USA.