Reddit reviews Fast Spectrum Reactors
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They are passively safe as long as they are rather small, EBR-II was 60MWt. Small reactors are expensive. Large metal cooled FRs have positive void coefficient, and need a lot of safety gear.
SFRs need more unique equipment since it has two heat transfer fluids (i.e. sodium and water pumps), double-walled HXes, 3 loops instead of 2, more complicated reactor vessel, etc.
From: http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Spectrum-Reactors-Alan-Waltar/dp/1441995714
>The cost increment over the LWR has generally been assumed to range between 10 and 25% for mature plants.