Recent status and trend of domestic and international fast reactor development

Nakai, Ryodai 

In the 21st century, the importance of FBR development has been recognized taking into account the reduction of environment burden as well as the stable supply of resources. Recently foreign countries also recognize the usefulness of nuclear energy and become to proceed the fast reactor development actively. The international cooperation has been operated in the framework of international forum such as GIF and INPRO. The cooperation is being focused on the direction for the standardization of fast reactor concept. In Japan the research and development governance structure has been established and the FaCT project has been initiated aiming at the commercialization of fast reactor.