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The China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) announced on 9 October that China's first lead-bismuth alloy zero-power reactor - Qixing (Venus) III – had achieved first criticality, marking the start of key experiments into liquid metal cooled fast reactors. CIAE said R&D into lead-bismuth fast reactor has now "entered the engineering stage from the physical basic research stage” and a series of tests will be carried out to obtain data on the core parameters that can be used in the development of lead-bismuth fast reactor designs. "The reactor is aimed at the key and difficult problems in the engineering of a lead-bismuth fast reactor," CIAE said. "The interaction mode of nuclear fuel and lead-bismuth alloy coolant material is accurately constructed in large-size lead-bismuth alloy coolant material, and the core physical properties of a lead-bismuth reactor are more accurately simulated."
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinese-lead-bismuth-test-reactor-start-up-7467759