[2L01-04] Improvement design of Molten salt reactor

[2L01] Development of Safety Design Technologies for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Coupled to Thermal Energy Storage System with Sodium–Molten Salt Heat Exchanger

(1) Project Overview

*Hidemasa Yamano¹, Kenichi Kurisaka¹, Kazuya Takano¹, Shin Kikuchi¹, Toshiki Kondo¹, Ryota Umeda¹, Masaaki Hayashi² (1. JAEA, 2. HGNE)

Keywords:Sodium-cooled fast reactor, Thermal energy storage, Nitrate molten salt, Safety design, Heat exchanger, Chemical reaction

This paper describes the overview of an ongoing research project which aims at the development of safety design philosophy and risk assessment technology for sodium-cooled fast reactors with thermal energy storage system, sodium-salt heat exchange performance evaluation technology and measures to improve the heat transfer, sodium-salt chemical reaction characteristics evaluation and measures to improve safety.