Generation IV International Forum (GIF)

Generation IV International Forum (GIF) has led international collaborative on development of the next-generation nuclear energy systems that can help meet the world�s future energy needs. Generation-IV designs will use fuel more efficiently, reduce waste production, and be economically competitive, and meet stringent standards of safety and proliferation resistance.

Over one hundred experts have evaluated 130 reactor concepts before the GIF selected six reactor technologies that include: the Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR), the Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR), the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR), the Supercritical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR), the Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) and the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR).

The Technology Roadmap have been developed:  

Countries are implementing the �A Technology Roadmap for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems.� The United States Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy supports GIF. China has started construction of a prototype High Temperature Reactor, the first step towards the development of the VHTR. Both France and Russia are developing advanced sodium-fast reactor designs for near-term demonstration. A Russian is also plans to build a prototype lead fast reactor.

Now is the time for political leaders to take the next step and support a World Clean Energy Plan (2010 - 2050) that would provide clean, efficient energy for ten billion people, would bring every country into the 21st century, and carbon dioxide emissions levels are reduced.

Government, business and educational leaders need to support the World Clean Energy Plan and start locating and designing the manufacturing facilities to assemble an estimated 10,000 power plants. Each facility could build one power plant per week or fifty per year. Ten facilities could build 500 power plants per year. And the estimated 10,000 power plants could be built and operated during a twenty to thirty years. 

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