breeder reactor

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breeder reactor

A nuclear reactor that produces as well as consumes fissionable material, especially one that produces more fissionable material than it consumes.

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breeder reactor

(Nuclear Physics) a type of nuclear reactor that produces more fissionable material than it consumes. Compare converter reactor See also fast-breeder reactor

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breeder reactor - a nuclear reactor that produces more fissile material than it burns

blanket - a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

nuclear reactor, reactor - (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements

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surgénérateur

reattore autofertilizzante

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Table 1 shows India's 22 power reactors (excluding the prototype fast breeder reactor, which is discussed below).

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The Japanese delegation welcomed the renewed potential operation of Phenix ( fast breeder reactor at Marcoule, Gard) and the French side expressed a hope that Monju (Japan's largest experiment FBR, now at a standstill) "will soon be able to make a further contribution to cooperation in fast reactor R & D".

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Joining with environmental groups, NTU helped kill the Clinch River Breeder Reactor, where cost overruns were more than enough to wipe out the savings it was designed to produce.

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Russia's Beloyarsk nuclear power station is currently preparing to launch a new power unit with a BN-800 sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor.

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The forefront is this that the reactor and the equipment that we have made here is of high precision," said Prabhat Kumar, Project Director of the prototype fast breeder reactor, Bhavini.

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The gas-cooled fast reactor uses helium coolant directly to a gas turbine generator to produce electricity and would be a breeder reactor. The design might be used as a process heat source for the production of hydrogen.

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The Clinch River site, abandoned since late 1983 when Congress killed the breeder reactor project that was to occupy the land (SN: 11/19/83, p.