Science News, January 26th, 1985
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 the United States is still very much alive. According to its designers, the new Argonne reactor shows the potential for being safer, less costly and more resistant to fuel theft by terrorists than virtually any other reactor on the drawing board. They named it the integral fast reactor (IFR) to denote that it would con...
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