The objective of the Japanese prototype fast breeder reactor project is to con struct a mixed oxide fueled prototype fast breeder reactor of 200 to 300MWe capacity through the application of domestic technology with the contribution of associated work in research and development.
The initial design work is expected to start in the hands of the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) in the summer of 1969, but to prepare for this, PNC commissioned representative Japanese manufactures to submit preliminary designs based on summary specifications. The purpose of this preliminary design study was to let the manufacturers design a prototype fast breeder reactor plant untrammeled by restrictive conditions, to permit their embodying original ideas and concepts, which might eventually be adopted and incorporated in PNC's prototype reactor project.
The design study was made over a period of five months between September 1968 and January 1969, the companies commissioned being Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Mitsubishi Atomic Power Industries, Inc., Sumitomo Atomic Energy Industries, Ltd. and Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.
A brief summary of the result of this preliminary design study is presented, with schematic illustrations of the reactor structure, fuel handling system and steam generator constituting the different reactor plans submitted.
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