Summary of severe accident issues of LBE-cooled reactors

The safety analysis work is always a key issue for the nuclear power plant licensing. After Fukushima Accident of Japan, the severe accident safety analysis has been more concerned, which would be also very important and essential for the Research and Development (R&D) work of LBE-cooled reactors. So far, a great number of studies on severe accident of LBE-cooled reactors have been carried out. In this paper, a summary of severe accident of LBE-cooled reactors is conducted, which contains almost all the relevant issues on the hypothetical Core Disruptive Accidents (CDAs). Detailed contents of these issues are discussed. The systematic framework of severe accident safety analysis of LBE-cooled reactors is preliminarily given, which aims at providing a useful reference for the further safety analysis research work of this kind of advanced reactor. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.