Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) System Safety Assessment - 2020
A report by the GIF Risk and Safety Working Group (RSWG).
The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) Experts Group tasked the Risk and Safety Working Group (RSWG) with assessing the high-level safety design characteristics of all six GIF systems. The objective is to review and identify the main safety advantages and possible challenges of the individual technologies, with a view to assess the current status of safety-related research & development (R&D) activities and identify future R&D needs for each system. In this context, the RSWG requested that the GIF Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) provisional System Steering Committee (pSSC) prepare a system safety assessment (SSA) document summarizing the safety advantages and challenges of LFR concepts under consideration. The present report is structured according to the “table of contents” below as proposed by the RSWG. In preparing this assessment, the LFR pSSC has placed emphasis on the outcomes of safety-related R&D for the GIF LFR Reference Systems and the review of LFR safety aspects by the French “Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire” (IRSN).