The Integral fast reactor (IFR, originally Advanced Liquid-Metal Reactor) is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron moderator (a "fast" reactor). IFR is distinguished by a nuclear fuel cycle that uses reprocessing via electrorefining at the reactor site.
The U.S. Department of Energy built a prototype (the Experimental Breeder Reactor II), but the IFR project was canceled by the US Congress in 1994, three years before completion.
The proposed Generation IV Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor is its closest surviving fast breeder reactor design. Other countries have also designed and operated fast reactors.
S-PRISM (from SuperPRISM), also called PRISM (Power Reactor Innovative Small Module), is the name of a nuclear power plant design by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) based on the Integral Fast Reactor
Read more about Integral Fast Reactor: Overview, Advantages, Safety, Efficiency and Fuel Cycle, History
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