Editing Integral fast reactor (section)

===Since 2000===

In 2001, as part of the [[generation IV reactor|Generation IV]] roadmap, the DOE tasked a 242-person team of scientists from DOE, [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT), Stanford, ANL, [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]], [[Toshiba]], [[Westinghouse Electric Company|Westinghouse]], [[Duke University|Duke]], [[Electric Power Research Institute|EPRI]], and other institutions to evaluate 19 of the best reactor designs on 27 different criteria. The IFR ranked #1 in their study which was released April 9, 2002.<ref name=G4ES-2002>[http://www.skirsch.com/politics/ifr/DOEnuclearstudy.pdf Generation IV roadmap. Evaluation Summaries. 2002] 18 slides – some illegible</ref>

At present, there are no integral fast reactors in commercial operation. However, the [[BN-800 reactor]], a very similar fast reactor operated as a burner of [[plutonium]] stockpiles, became commercially operational in 2014.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}