Talk:PRISM (reactor)

like IFR - metallic fuel ?
PRISM looks very much like Integral Fast Reactor by another name according to this article.

Similarities: Sodium pool LMFR, onsite pyroprocessing by electrorefining (here called ARC or Advanced Recycling Center).

Questions: Metal fuel, with stainless cladding and sodium filled void? How is it cast?

Interesting... Andrewa (talk) 00:12, 24 March 2014 (UTC)


 * According to https://nuclear.gepower.com/build-a-plant/products/nuclear-power-plants-overview/prism1 the fuel is indeed metallic. The cladding and whether the void has been retained is not mentioned. Nor is Thorium mentioned, just Uranium and Plutonium.


 * The fuel should be described in the article. It's metallic and I'm guessing Uranium and Plutonium, but we need a source to positively identify whether Thorium can be used too. Andrewa (talk) 11:00, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

ARC-100 2018
From news July 2018 it sounds like "GE Hitachi" is now collaborating with "Advanced Reactor Concepts" to build the rector ARC-100 type (in New Brunswick Canada), which again seems to be a variant of the Integral Fast Reactor and in particular a refinement of the Experimental Breeder Reactor II. See https://www.arcnuclear.com/arc-100-reactor and http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-First-partner-announced-for-New-Brunswick-SMR-project-1007187.html. Anyone wants to put something like this on the main page (I really feel not qualified to edit it). 83.10.78.150 (talk) 19:50, 1 October 2018 (UTC)