Mitsubishi FBR Systems, Inc. (MFBR) is a company formed on July 1, 2007 by

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group and its automobile division is the predecessor of Mitsubishi Mo ...

to develop

Fast breeder reactor A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. Breeder reactors achieve this because their neutron economy is high enough to create more fissile fuel than they use, by irradiation of a fertile mater ...

technology. The establishment of the company was based on the April 2007 decision by the Japanese government to select Mitsubishi as the core company for FBR development. Expectations are for a demonstration reactor for launching by 2025 and a full commercial plant by 2050, and for FBRs to eventually supersede

Light water reactor The light-water reactor (LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator; furthermore a solid form of fissile elements is used as fuel. Thermal-neutron react ...

technology in Japan. *Capitalization: 100 million yen *Stock holders: Currently exclusively

, but there are plans to eventually accept investments from Japanese electric utility companies *Employees: 50, expanding to 160 by 2015 *Location: Jingū-mae (神宮前) in

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*President: Keizō Okada, the General Manager of the MHI Nuclear Systems Engineering Department The successor to

Monju Nuclear Power Plant was a Japanese sodium-cooled fast reactor, located near the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant, Fukui Prefecture. Its name is a reference to Manjusri. Construction started in 1986 and the reactor achieved criticality for the first time in April 1994. ...

had been expected to be a larger demonstration plant to be completed around 2025, built Mitsubishi FBR. However, in 2014 Japan agreed to cooperate in developing the emergency reactor cooling system, and in a few other areas, with the French

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demonstration sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, which was subsequently cancelled in August 2019. In 2016, the development of Japanese fast reactors halted as a result of the government decision to decommission the

following problems with the plant including sodium leakage. In January 2022, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi FBR Systems signed a Memorandum of Understanding with

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to cooperate on the development of sodium-cooled fast reactors. Under the agreement TerraPower would acquire japanese know-how and test facilities related to fast reactors.

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(in Japanese) {{Authority control Nuclear technology companies of Japan Mitsubishi Heavy Industries divisions and subsidiaries Engineering companies of Japan

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