Fast breeder reactor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The fast breeder or fast breeder reactor ( FBR ) is a fast neutron reactor designed to breed fuel by producing more fissile material than it consumes. The FBR is one possible type of breeder r...
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name Suzanne status student age 11 Question - What is the difference between a fusion reactor and a breeder reactor? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a breeder reactor? You do have something in your archives about this but it only explains a breeder reactor and that its a fission reactor.
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This is possible because the fission reactions release lots of neutrons that can be used to transform certain non-useful isotopes into useful isotopes or elements - in particular Plutonium is generally a product of breeder reactors.
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France has made the largest implementation of breeder reactors with its large Super-Phenix reactor and an intermediate scale reactor (BN-600) on the Caspian Sea for electric power and desalinization.
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hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/fasbre.html
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It is possible to build breeder reactors which can be fueled with a fissile material and operated to produce electric power as in any conventional reactor; at the end of the operating cycle, the reactor fuel will contain more fissile material than it had when initially started.
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Paper to Uranium Institute 1999 Annual Symposium, by Richard Wilson on The Changing Need for a Breeder Reactor. ... Fossil fuel supplies are more plentiful and cheaper than anticipated, supplies of uranium ore are adequate, and the cost of the experimental breeder reactors has been greater than expected.
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www.world-nuclear.org/sym/1999/wilson.htm
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There are different types of reactors. The power reactor is used to generate heat for conversion ... Breeder reactors. A breeder, or fast, reactor is designed to produce both power and new fuel at the same time. Breeder reactors do away with the moderator so that the neutrons retain higher velocity and kinetic energy.
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www.upei.ca/~physics/p261/projects/nuclear2/reactors.ht...
www.upei.ca/~physics/p261/projects/nuclear2/reactors.html
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France has constructed and used Breeder Reactors like this for many years. So have the British and the Japanese. So why not the United States? ... There is no compelling reason to delay shifting our dependence from fossil to nuclear fuel, and redirecting our nuclear focus to Breeder Reactors. We have the ability to control...
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www.argee.net/DefenseWatch/Nuclear%20Waste%20and%20Bree...
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In fast breeder reactors and advanced thermal reactors, there exist difficult-to-access areas where direct verification of the inventory of fuel in the reactor core is impossible. ... Although breeder reactors can be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium, as the article Jeffrey cites above notes, doing so would...
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www.armscontrolwonk.com/955/safeguarding-breeder-reacto...
www.armscontrolwonk.com/955/safeguarding-breeder-reactors
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