Talk:Integral fast reactor

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At present there are no Integral Fast Reactors in commercial operation, however a very similar fast reactor, operated as a burner of plutonium stockpiles, the BN-800 reactor, became commercially operational in 2014.

Very similar? The BN-800 uses oxide fuel. The whole concept of the IFR is onsite reprocessing of the metal fuel using pyroprocessing. This is not even possible with oxide fuel.

Actually, pyroelectric processing is possible with oxide fuel, but it must first be reduced to metal using essentially the same process, with the roles of anode and cathode reversed. Oxygen is removed and converted to CO₂ using a graphite cathode. Metal accumulates at the anode.Van Snyder

It was intended that it be possible to use some metallic and/or nitride fuel in the BN-800, but the fuel load so far has been pure oxide, and there are no plans to use metal fuel as of 2019.

The IFR on the other hand must use only metal fuel. Andrewa (talk) 17:53, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

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2,000 staff for ten years can't have been cheap. Can we have some details on total cost, original budget cost, funding by year, final cost after closedown ? - Rod57 (talk) 18:00, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Article currently reads in part The U.S. Department of Energy began designing an IFR in 1984 and built a prototype, the Experimental Breeder Reactor II. But EBR2 achieved first criticality in 1965. Am I missing something? Andrewa (talk) 16:32, 26 September 2022 (UTC)