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breeder reactor

NOUN
  1. a nuclear reactor that produces more fissile material than it burns

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  • More recently, the demand for fast breeder reactors has seemed less urgent as worldwide supplies of uranium have become more plentiful.
  • The light water breeder reactor (LWBR) concept was also successfully tested here from 1977 to 1982 with thorium and 233U fuel clad with zircaloy using the 'seed/blanket' concept. Thorium
  • One is that no one has yet built a commercially viable breeder reactor. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
  • US negotiators agreed to keep India's experimental fast breeder reactor off the civilian list. Times, Sunday Times
  • One is that no one has yet built a commercially viable breeder reactor. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
  • Spent uranium extracted from so-called Magnox reactors was intended to be reprocessed for use as fuel in Fast Breeder reactors, providing plutonium for weapons and civilian use.
  • The preliminary analysis showed that the LCFBR was a safe and feasible fast breeder reactor.
  • Protests reached their peak in 1977 with the decision to build the 1200 MWe fast breeder reactor at Creys-Malville.
  • One is that no one has yet built a commercially viable breeder reactor. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
  • But, pebble reactors do not have the same crash shields required of light-water breeder reactors.
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