Talk:Natrium reactor

Safety of Sodium-cooled reactors

Statement by Robert Steinhaus, former physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:[1]
Sodium proponents make such claims such as "walk away safe" (but in my opinion, make such claims are irresponsible and without good engineering evidence). I respect evidence and the factual accumulated record of multiple decades of reactor operating history. SFRs (Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors) have been built for now 70 years, and anyone having a serious interest should take the time to examine the operating safety record for SFRs as a reactor class. https://world-nuclear.org/.../fast-neutron-reactors.aspx

Conclusion - approximately half of the SFRs constructed over seven decades had their operating lives shortened by a safety-related accident or incident. This is a vastly inferior safety record to any other current reactor class.) My specific safety concerns for sodium-cooled reactors are in The case for not building large numbers of Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors