Development of safety design criteria and safety design guidelines for Generation IV sodium-cooled fast reactors

Futagami, Satoshi  ; Kubo, Shigenobu ; Sofu, T.*; Ammirabile, L.*; Gauthe, P.*

In the framework of the GIF, an effort to develop Safety Design Criteria (SDC) for SFR systems was initiated in 2011. For this purpose, an SDC task force (SDC-TF) was formulated in July 2011. The SDC-TF members consist of representatives of CIAE (China), CEA (France), JAEA (Japan), KAERI, KINS (Republic of Korea), IPPE (Russia), ANL, INL, ORNL (United States of America), EC and IAEA. This paper describes the outline of the SDC and SDGs contents and its development background as shown above. These SDC and SDGs refer related IAEA safety standards, such as SSR-2/1 Safety of Nuclear Power Plants: Design, SSG-52 Design of the Reactor Core for Nuclear Power Plants. This paper focuses on both technology neutral aspects, which are common parts between the SDC/SDG and IAEA standards, and SFR specific aspects.