The German fast breeder program (a historical overview)

W Marth and M Koehler

Energy, 1998, vol. 23, issue 7, 593-608

Abstract: Basic and technology programs on German fast breeder reactor (FBR) research were launched by the government and industry in the sixties. At the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center (KfK), the 20-MWe sodium-cooled KNK experimental nuclear power station was built by INTERATOM. It was operated successfully until 1991. A German–Belgian–Netherlands consortium was responsible for planning and building the SNR 300, a 300-MWe prototype breeder, in Kalkar. For political reasons, the plant was never commissioned; it was stopped in 1991. In the nineties, Germany together with France and the United Kingdom participated for some time in the development of the European Fast Reactor (EFR).

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0360-5442(97)00074-1

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