[en] The U.S. Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor (ALMR) which is based on the modular PRISM concept utilizes passive safety characteristics to simplify the reactor design and enhance its safety performance. The relatively small size of each reactor facilitates the use of strong negative feedback with rising temperature for inherent reactivity control and direct, natural air cooling for decay heat removal. The tall, slender reactor geometry of the ALMR enhances uniformity and stability of internal flow distribution during steady state operation and natural circulation flow during transient conditions. The flow uniformity and low operating pressure and temperature of the reactor contributes to high structural margins. A number of experiments and associated analyses have been performed to evaluate natural convection and thermal-hydraulic phenomena experienced under decay heat removal conditions. This paper summarizes these various efforts as described separately below and presents the main results. (author)