Octobre 2016 / The Mainichi

France wants Japan to share 570 billion yen ASTRID reactor development cost

October 22, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)

The French government has estimated that the new fast-breeder demonstration reactor ASTRID will cost roughly 5 billion euros (around 570 billion yen) to develop, and it wants to share that cost with Japan, it has been learned.

The Japanese government plans to conduct research with France on ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) to develop a fast-breeder reactor that can replace its trouble-plagued (...)

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