The EAGLE Project to Enhance Safety of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor

Kamiyama, Kenji

Human Energy Atom, 2021(2), p.30 - 35, 2021/00

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has agreed to the research cooperation on the core safety of sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) with the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC-RK), and it has been going on for over 20 years. This research cooperation is called the EAGLE project, which is an advanced and challenging research program utilizing the facilities of NNC-RK. The background and outline of this EAGLE program, as well as the implementation status and major achievements so far, are introduced here.