The missing link for Gen IV
Designed as a testing platform for fourth-generation reactor technologies, advanced fuels and closed-fuel cycle research facility, a 150MWth fast-neutron research reactor is under construction in Dimitrovgrad, Russia. NEi talks to Vasily Konstantinov, director-general of Consortium Leader of MBIR Reactor International Research Centre LLC, about the project and its role in commercialisation of fast reactors.