ANL, LLNL, LANL,

United States of America

The reactor concepts addressed in this section are the SSTAR and STAR-LM small lead cooled reactors without on-site refuelling, developed in the Argonne National Laboratory and other national laboratories of the USA. Detailed descriptions of these concepts are presented in [IX-1]; short summaries of the concepts are given in sections IX-1 (SSTAR) and IX-2 (STAR-LM) below. The inherent safety features and passive safety design options of the STAR-LM are similar to those of the SSTAR. Because it would be redundant to list them, they are not reproduced below; the reader is referred to section IX-3 and the following sections on SSTAR.