Abstract
The paper reviews the work that is currently being done in the Federal Republic of Germany on the design and safety aspects of a large 1000 MW(e) Gas Cooled Fast Reactor. The design studies comprise the layout of both the primary (helium) and the secondary (water-steam) system, the latter to the extent necessary to determine its feed back on the primary system. Safety studies include the analysis of the transient behaviour of the plant under various accident conditions including the design basis accident. It is shown that the GCFR system can be designed to meet the safety requirements currently in use in the Federal Republic of Germany for the Pressurized Water Reactor. Although up to the present time no realistic chain of events has been detected that would lead to accidents beyond the design basis accident, some work is being carried out in the field of hypothetical accidents. Included have been studies on problems associated with handling of gross core melting.
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