Abstract:  The sodium cooled fast reactor possesses a number of inherently safe properties: high thermo-conductivity, low pressurized sodium system, tiny corrosion on materials used in SFR by sodium, no any acute molten fuel-sodium interaction, no long-lived nuclides produced after irradiation, enough dynamic viscosity and heat volume expansion to design possibly an passive accident decay heat removal system, etc. The CEFR is a sodium cooled pool type fast reactor with thermal power 65 MW and electric power 20 MW. Besides above-mentioned properties, the CEFR is designed with negative reactivity effect of temperature,
power and sodium void, independent passive accident decay heat removal systems, passive leaked sodium receivers, passive over-pressure protection system and passive cooled reactor core molten receiver, etc. And the CEFR is also equipped by reliable active maturity safety systems. The safety of CEFR is reached to the safety aims of Generation Ⅳof nuclear systems.

Key words: sodium cooled fast reactor (SFR), inherently safe property, passive safety, China experimental fast reactor (CEFR)