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Contents
AN ESSENTIAL ROLE FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY ..................................................................................................... 1
The Long-Term Benefits from Nuclear Energy’s Essential Role ........................................................................... 1
Meeting the Challenges of Nuclear Energy’s Essential Role ................................................................................. 2
THE GENERATION IV TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP IN BRIEF ................................................................................. 5
An International Effort .......................................................................................................................................... 5
Goals for Generation IV ........................................................................................................................................ 6
The Generation IV Roadmap Project ..................................................................................................................... 8
Evaluation and Selection Methodology .................................................................................................................. 9
Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems ............................................................................................................... 11
FINDINGS OF THE ROADMAP ................................................................................................................................. 13
Fuel Cycles and Sustainability ............................................................................................................................. 13
Descriptions of the Generation IV Systems.......................................................................................................... 14
Missions and Economics for Generation IV ......................................................................................................... 16
Safety, Safeguards, and Public Confidence in Generation IV .............................................................................. 18
Near-Term Deployment Opportunities and Generation IV .................................................................................. 18
RECOMMENDED R&D FOR THE MOST PROMISING SYSTEMS ........................................................................ 21
Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................... 21
Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor System R&D ................................................................................................................ 22
Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor System R&D .............................................................................................................. 27
Molten Salt Reactor System R&D ........................................................................................................................ 33
Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor System R&D.......................................................................................................... 38
Supercritical-Water-Cooled Reactor System R&D .............................................................................................. 42
Very-High-Temperature Reactor System R&D .................................................................................................... 48
RECOMMENDED CROSSCUTTING R&D ................................................................................................................ 53
Crosscutting Fuel Cycle R&D .............................................................................................................................. 53
Crosscutting Fuels and Materials R&D ................................................................................................................ 60
Crosscutting Energy Products R&D ..................................................................................................................... 65
Crosscutting Risk and Safety R&D ...................................................................................................................... 69
Safety and Reliability Evaluation and Peer Review ............................................................................................. 71
Crosscutting Economics R&D .............................................................................................................................. 71
Crosscutting Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection R&D .................................................................. 75
INTEGRATION OF R&D PROGRAMS AND PATH FORWARD............................................................................... 79
Introduction.................................................................................