ASTRID (reactor)

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ASTRID ( Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration ) is a 600 mega watt heavy sodium-cooled breeder reactor of the Generation IV , proposed by the French Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA). Above all, it should promote the transmutation of nuclear waste and thus close the nuclear fuel cycle. After accidents in the Monju sodium breeder and its shutdown, Japan participated in the ASTRID project.

The reactor was to be built at the Marcoule site as the successor to Phénix , the first commercial breeder reactor. In June 2012, 500 people were involved in the project. A decision on the construction of the plant was originally supposed to be made in 2020. In mid-2019, the press reported that ASTRID was being discontinued.

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