Prevention of Sodium Reactions

The easiest way to prevent chemical reactions is to prevent the constit­uents from coming into contact. One would need inerted vaults and con­tainment, absence of water in system, and drainage points for sodium spills.

It should be reiterated that the main safety feature is that the fault should always be detectable and then that remedial action can be taken by the protective system: to scram and to provide emergency core cooling. The criteria (9) which apply to safety features have been discussed in Section 3.3.