| Abstract: | The author expounds his point of view concerning the comparative advantages and drawbacks of two types of technology for liquid-metal fast-neutron reators: lead and sodium. It is concluded that there are no substantiation and no significant factors justifying forced implementation of a lead-cooled reactor, especially in the existing economic climate in Russia. Successful advancement of a new reactor technoloy is possible at present only if the technology is accepted internationally and the principal nuclear countires participate. Russian Science Center “Kurchatov Institute”. Translated from Atomnaya énergiya, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 171–174, March, 1999. |
