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== Safety of Sodium-cooled reactors ==
'''Statement''' by Robert Steinhaus, former physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:[https://www.facebook.com/groups/molten.salt.reactors/posts/1306834286674239?comment_id=1306859373338397&reply_comment_id=1309825979708403]<br>
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 [https://www.quora.com/Is-BN-800.../answer/Robert-Steinhaus The case for not building large numbers of Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors]

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 Definition:  A fast reactor using molten sodium as the coolant. Development funded by Bill Gates. Like the MCSFR, capable of burning spent nuclear fuel. [d] [e]
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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

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