center for nuclear energy. It will be built based on a first successful demonstrator: GUINEVERE. The project entered a new phase of development in 2013 when a contract for the front-end engineering design was awarded to a consortium led by Areva. MYRRHA enjoys international recognition and was listed in December 2010 by the European Commission as one of 50 projects for maintaining European leadership in high-tech research in the next 20 years. Germany The dual fluid reactor (DFR) is a German project combining the advantages of the molten salt reactor with the ones of the liquid metal cooled reactor. As a breeder reactor the DFR can burn both natural uranium and thorium, as well as recycle nuclear waste. Due to the high thermal conductivity of the molten metal, the DFR is an inherently safe reactor (the decay heat can be removed passively). Romania ALFRED (Advanced Lead Fast Reactor European Demonstrator) is a lead cooled fast reactor demonstrator designed by Ansaldo Energia from Italy planned to be built in Mioveni, Romania. ATHENA, a molten lead pool used for research purposes, is going to be built in the same site as well. Russia Insofar as serious development is involved, Russia seems to be on the forefront of developing the lead cooled fast reactor. The BREST reactor is currently under construction. This reactor will employ pure lead as coolant, a plutonium/uranium nitride fuel, generate 300 MWe (electric) from 750 MWth, and is a pool type reactor. The foundation has been completed in November 2021. The reactor sits as the Siberian Chemical Combine's (SCC's) Seversk site. Sweden The company LeadCold is in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Uniper developing the SEALER (Swedish Advanced Lead Reactor) reactor, a lead-cooled reactor using uranium nitride as fuel. United States The initial design of the Hyperion Power Module was to be of this type, using uranium nitride fuel encased in HT-9 tubes, using a quartz reflector, and lead-bismuth eutectic as coolant. The firm went out of business in 2018. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed SSTAR was a lead-cooled design. See also Fast breeder reactor Fast neutron reactor Gas-cooled fast reactor Generation IV reactor Integral fast reactor Sodium-cooled fast reactor References Advanced reactor, fuel cycle, and energy products workshop for universities Generation IV International Forum lead-cooled fast reactor website External links Idaho National Laboratory Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (lead-cooled fast reactor) Fact Sheet Heavy-Metal Aerosol Transport