The empowerment of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)  is causing the advent of a new era of nuclear energy. 

The International Atomic Energy Agency has committed itself to "Help to ensure that nuclear energy is available to contribute in fulfilling energy needs in the 21st century in a sustainable manner; and to bring together both technology holders and technology users to consider jointly the international and national actions required to achieve desired innovations in nuclear reactors and fuel cycles."- IAEA-TECDOC-1362.

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas pollute the atmosphere with CO, CO2, Sox, Nox, etc., providing acid rains and changing the global climate by increasing the greenhouse effect, while nuclear energy does not produce these pollutants.

Renewable energies such as solar and wind, though have their merits, are not able to deliver sufficient energy required by the developing and developed countries.

The objective of the FBNR Project is to develop an innovative nuclear reactor to be inherently safe, passively cooled, small, modular, and simple in design with 
integrated primary circuit.  

Safety is to be achieved by design, and should have reduced adverse impact on environment. It is to meet the requirements of GEN IV and IAEA-INPRO as being economic, safe, proliferation resistant and sustainable. 

FBNR is intended to be a near term deployment project.

FBNR may be called the People’s Reactor. It is intended to be developed by the peoples for the peoples of the world in the spirit of cooperation and service to humanity.

Knowledge is treasury of humankind, thus scientists are the treasurers of humanity. 

This project calls upon all the scientists and researchers of the world to contribute to this noble cause.

You in particular, your institution, and your country are invited to participate in this project and join the emerging international consortium to develop the FBNR reactor, where all members are stakeholders.

• Artist's Vision of the Fixed Bed Nuclear Reactor Concept (FBNR) 

• General Concept 

• References on the Fixed and Fluidized Bed Nuclear Reactor Concept

• A new nuclear power reactor concept - IJST 1977

• Preliminary reactor physics calculations of a fluidized bed nuclear reactor concept - Kerntechnik 1980

• A Fluidized-Bed Nuclear Reactor Concept - Nuclear Technology 1985

• Fluidized Bed Nuclear Reactor - Eberle Brochure

• Dynamic Stability of a Fluidized-bed Nuclear Reactor - Nuclear Technology 1995
  

• Status of the Small Modular Fluidized Bed Light Water Nuclear Reactor Concept - Nuclear Engineering and Design 1996

• Fixed Bed Suspended Core Nuclear Reactor Concept - Kerntechnik 2003

• IAEA-CSP-24: Innovative Tecnologies for Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Nuclear Power, June 2003. (Pages 463-5, IAEA-CN-108/3P: Fixed Bed Suspended Core Nuclear Reactor Concept)

• Schematic Design of the Reactor
  

• Poster

• Evaluation of FBNR using IAEA-INPRO Methodology - Kerntechnik 2004

• Presentation at the IAEA Consultancy Meeting on Innovative Small Reactors without On-Site Refuelling - March 15-17, 2004.

• Invitation to participate in an International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on Innovative Small Nuclear Reactors without On-site Refuelling

• FBNR : Paper presented at the IAEA Technical Meeting June 7-11, 2004.  

• FBNR Letter 01 – Request for the proposal for the IAEA Coordinated Research Project. 

• FBNR Letter 02 – FBNR meets the IAEA requirements.

• FBNR Letter 03 – How are the innovative nuclear reactors?

• FBNR Letter 04 – How to form the World Nuclear Energy Company (WONEC)?

• FBNR Letter 05 - The CRP on the development of small nuclear reactors has been approved. The FBNR is a candidate to receive research contracts

• FBNR Letter 06 - The IAEA-CRP is offering 5 contracts for FBNR project. Do you want to participate? Make your proposal now!

• FBNR Letter 07 - The IAEA gives “Research Contract” to developing countries and “Research Agreement” to the industrialized countries. Enclosed are the appropriate forms.

• FBNR Letter 08 - The estimated dimensions and volume fractions of the materials in the FBNR module.

• FBNR Letter 09 - The proposals for the IAEA Coordinated Research Projects (CRP) on FBNR for the first year should be within the scope of the activities defined by the IAEA. Here is the list of 6 activities.

• FBNR Letter 10 - Some suggestions concerning the research problems of FBNR.

• FBNR Letter 11 - FBNR is a non-proliferation nuclear reactor.

• FBNR Letter 11A - FBNR is meant to be a fool proof non-proliferation nuclear reactor. Take it as a challenge to prove or disprove this claim!

• FBNR Letter 11B - FBNR is claimed to be a fool proof non-proliferation nuclear reactor.

• FBNR Letter 11C - "A fool proof non-proliferation nuclear reactor concept", Kerntechnik 70 (2005) 4.

• FBNR Letter 12 - Request for a simplified expression to estimate the criticality behavior of the FBNR.

• FBNR Letter 12A - The solution offered by Dr. Raymond Murray to the problem posed in the FBNR Letter No.12.

• FBNR Letter 13 - Invitation to participate in the presentation of a paper on FBNR at ICONE-13.

• FBNR Letter 14 - Schematic Design of the Fixed Bed Nuclear Reactor- FBNR.

• FBNR - IAEA Status Report - 2004

• FBNR - IAEA Preliminary Report - 2005

• FBNR Letter 15 - The estimated dimensions and volume fractions of the materials in the FBNR module. This is a revised version of FBNR Letter 08.

• Presentation at the Research Coordination Meeting (RCM2005) on Small Reactors without On-site Refuelling (SRWOR), Vienna, November 21-25, 2005.

• FBNR Basic data for neutronics calculations. January 2006

• IAEA TECDOC - 1362: Guidance for the evaluation of innovative nuclear reactors and fuel cycles. (Report of Phase 1A of the International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles - INPRO)

• IAEA TECDOC - 1434: Methodology for the assessment of innovative nuclear reactors and fuel cycles. (Report of Phase 1B (first part) of the International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles - INPRO)

• IAEA TECDOC - 1485: Status of Innovative Small and Medium Sized Reactor Designs 2005: Reactors with Conventional Refuelling Schemes.

• INPRO Manual Reactor Safety

• INPRO Manual Fuel Cycle Safety

• INPRO Manual of Economics

• Sinopse do Reator Nuclear a Leito Fixo - FBNR

   

  LINKS

• Web-page of IAEA Coodinated Research Project on Small Reactors Without On-site Refuelling (SWOR)- (CRP - 125001)
• ICENES 2007 - Invitation to participate in the 13th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems, 03 - 08 June, 2007, Istambul - Turkey. Click: www.icenes2007.org

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E-mail: Farhang@ufrgs.br