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Fast breeder reactor: Schematic diagram showing the difference between the Loop and Pool types of LMFBR.
 
 

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Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Summary
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The liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) is a nuclear reactor that has been modified to increase the efficiency at which non-fissionable uranium-238 is converted to fissionable plutonium-239, which can be used as fuel in the production of...
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Fast breeder reactor Information
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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...


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The compleat breeder? (integral fast reactor)
01/26/1985: 1,669 words, approx. 6 pages
When the Clinch River Breeder Reactor (CRBR) project died last year (SN: 11/19/83, p. 329), many assumed the U.S. breeder development program died along with it. But, as illustrated by a new program at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, breeder reactor development in...
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The Boston Globe
Fast-breeder reactor starts up for continuous use in Japan
04/06/1994: 378 words, approx. 1 pages
TOKYO -- Japan's widely criticized plan to use plutonium to produce energy took a step forward yesterday when engineers shifted an experimental "fast-breeder" reactor into continuous operation. Protesters denounced the reactor, which produces more plutonium than it uses, as unsafe and unwise. Police...
 


 

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