NE Seminars

Thursday, November 9, 2006

• Eric Loewen, GE
  
• ''GE's PRISM Design Evolution For GNEP"
• Abstract
  
  This will be a three-part presentation providing an overview of GE Nuclear's current commercial efforts, GE's sodium fast reactor and the implications of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. Commercially, GE Nuclear is involved with nuclear power plant construction, servicing the existing fleet and producing nuclear fuel. GE has a history with sodium fast reactors and our most current design is called PRISM. PRISM was developed from the U.S. sodium cooled fast reactor investigations from 1984 through 1994. The PRISM features of fuel type, basis design, safety and economics will be discussed. The presentation will also discuss the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership goals in closing the fuel cycle and reducing proliferation resistance and how PRISM, coupled with electro-refining, can provide an integrated technical solution for this new policy.
  

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