Since 2001, GIF has been promoting international R&D collaboration for six types of Gen-IV reactor systems using sodium, lead, gas, molten salt and supercritical water coolants.ĭuring 2021, one of the significant activities and efforts that GIF addressed was substantive engagement with the private sector, as well efforts to deepen GIF’s role in climate change initiatives. In 2021, GIF completed its second decade as the sole international organization dedicated to collaborative research and development (R&D) on Gen-IV systems. This fourteenth edition of the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) Annual Report highlights the main achievements of GIF in 2021. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency ( NEA) serves as technical secretariat to GIF.
The GIF has selected six reactor technologies for further research and development: the gas-cooled fast reactor ( GFR), the lead-cooled fast reactor ( LFR), the molten salt reactor ( MSR), the sodium-cooled fast reactor ( SFR), the supercritical-water-cooled reactor ( SCWR) and the very high-temperature reactor ( VHTR).
The GIF brings together 13 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, Korea, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States), as well as Euratom – representing the 27 European Union members − to co-ordinate research and development on these systems. Established in 2001, the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) was created as a co-operative international endeavour seeking to develop the research necessary to test the feasibility and performance of fourth generation nuclear systems, and to make them available for industrial deployment by 2030.
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