Static and transient analysis of a medium-sized sodium cooled fast reactor loaded with oxide, nitride, carbide and metallic fuels

Based on our transient simulation results, comparing to other fuel cases, our nitride fuel case was proved to be able to provide the biggest margin to the working limits defined in this paper, concerning fuel melting, cladding rupture and coolant boiling. This enables the nitride fuel to be a competitive candidate for the BN600 type sodium cooled fast reactor usage.