Superphenix Technical and Scientific Achievements
For the first time a book has been written on the technological and scientific knowledge, acquired during, buiding , operation and even dismantling of the Superphenix plant. This reactor remains today the most powerful sodium fast breeder reactor ope
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perphenix Technical and Scientific Achievements
Superphenix
On the roof!
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Joël Guidez Gérard Prêle •
Superphenix Technical and Scientific Achievements
Joël Guidez CEA French Atomic Energy Commission CEA-DEN Gif-sur-Yvette France
Gérard Prêle EDF (SEPTEN) Villeurbanne France
Translation into English by Bernard Vray—BVFC.
ISBN 978-94-6239-245-8 DOI 10.2991/978-94-6239-246-5
ISBN 978-94-6239-246-5
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This book is dedicated to Mister Georges Vendryes, who spent most of his professional career to the development of fast neutron reactors. He published in 1997 the book “Superphénix, pourquoi ?” (Superphenix, why?) and his own dedication can be taken up again here: “I dedicate this book to the thousands of men and women who fought with enthusiasm, in France and in Europe, so that the fast neutron type of reactors gets developed and so that Superphenix lives.”
Foreword
The conventional wisdom tells “if one wants to know where he is going to, he must look at where he comes from”. Convinced of the merits of this saying, but also of the need to make it live in a person-to-person relationship, I invited Superphenix great engineer, the father of the French sodium reactors, Georges Vendryes, to whom this book is dedicated, to meet, in my office, the person in charge of the studies on this type of reactors, fifty years younger. And I saw, just in front of me, a torch passage with all that entails of human warmth, trust and mutual listening. In the cold language of modern engineering and project management, this book is an injunction to take full advantage of past experience feedbacks for the development of projects to come. This is the spirit of this book to capitalize the technical and scientific achievements of “Superphenix experience”. In this meaning, it is the following of the volume devoted by Joël Guidez to “Phenix Experience”,1 which allows
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