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    A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fueled with more-commonly available...
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    Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) is a decommissioned research reactor and U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 18 miles (29 km)...
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  • The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is a 500 MWe sodium-cooled, fast breeder reactor that is being constructed at Kokkilamedu, near Kalpakkam, in...
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  • reactor, or LMR is a type of nuclear reactor where the primary coolant is a liquid metal. Liquid metal cooled reactors were first adapted for breeder...
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    Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) was a sodium-cooled fast reactor designed, built and operated by Argonne National Laboratory at the National Reactor Testing...
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    A fast-neutron reactor (FNR) or fast-spectrum reactor or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is...
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    development of civil fast breeder reactors, and the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), a military submarine reactor testing facility. Both these...
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    reactors, and fast breeder reactors, variously optimizing efficiency, safety, and fuel type, enrichment, and burnup. Small modular reactors are also an area...
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    the Power Reactor and the Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation, the Government concern that ran the country's prototype fast-breeder reactor. Officials...
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    power plant using a thorium fuel cycle in a breeder reactor. Increased research into Generation IV reactor designs renewed interest in the 21st century...
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    economically extractable thorium reserves. The first Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor has been repeatedly delayed – and is currently expected to be commissioned...
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  • Integral fast reactor Stable salt reactor Liquid fluoride thorium reactor Breeder reactor Small modular reactor List of nuclear reactors Welcome to Generation...
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  • of the same breed Breeder (animal), an individual animal used for selective breeding Breeder reactor, a type of fast neutron reactor that produces more...
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    5623504°N 80.1645415°E / 12.5623504; 80.1645415 The Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is a breeder reactor located at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India. The Indira...
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    The BN-600 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It has...
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    Route 20 and U.S. Route 26, but most of the area (except Experimental Breeder Reactor I) is restricted to authorized personnel and requires appropriate security...
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    breeder reactor at Kalpakkam over". The Hindu. 26 November 2011. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 23 August 2023. DHNS. "India to get fast breeder reactor in...
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    The BN-800 reactor (Russian: реактор БН–800) is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk...
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    the reactor core and a heat exchanger. The US EBR-2, French Phénix and others used this approach, and it is used by India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor...
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    The Phénix breeder reactor in France was powered down in 2009 after 36 years of operation. Both China and India are building breeder reactors. The Indian...
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    sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) is its closest surviving fast breeder reactor design. Other countries have also designed and operated fast reactors. S-PRISM (from...
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    metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) on the uranium-plutonium cycle and a thermal reactor on the thorium-233U cycle, the molten salt breeder reactor. The LMFBR...
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  • engineering directed towards the development of fast breeder reactor technology in India. The fast reactor related research in India, originated at BARC, Mumbai...
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    The BN-1200 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor project, under development by OKBM Afrikantov in Zarechny, Russia. The BN-1200 is based on...
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    neutron reactors of 4th generation (molten salts reactors, metal-cooled reactors (sodium-cooled fast reactor, or lead-cooled fast reactor). Fast breeder reactors...
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    thermal breeder reactor. It kept the same seed-and-blanket design, but the seed was now uranium-233 and the blanket was made of thorium. Being a breeder reactor...
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    (fluoride high-temperature reactors) and still have a solid fuel. Molten salt reactors, as a class, include both burners and breeders in fast or thermal spectra...
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    these power plants. Breeder technology has been used in several experimental nuclear reactors. By December 2005, the only breeder reactor producing power...
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    In a thorium-fuelled reactor, 232 Th absorbs neutrons to produce 233 U . This parallels the process in uranium breeder reactors whereby fertile 238 U...
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    Madras Atomic Power Station (category Nuclear power stations with reactors under construction)
    treatment facility that includes plutonium fuel fabrication for fast breeder reactors (FBRs). It is also India's first fully indigenously constructed nuclear...
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