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Firstly, fast breeder reactors get a small fraction of the article, which is mostly devoted to the old stuff. Secondly, there are several different kinds of br
by bcatanzaro 7y ago
Firstly, fast breeder reactors get a small fraction of the article, which is mostly devoted to the old stuff.
Secondly, there are several different kinds of breeder reactor, and I don't see that lumping them all together helps understand their scalability. A liquid sodium cooled reactor fueled with uranium has completely different properties from a molten salt reactor fueled with thorium.
- fsh 7y agoAfter 70 years of research, LWRs are still the only reactor type that has ever been anywhere near economically viable. Many other approaches, such as Thorium pebble-bed reactors and sodium-cooled fast breeders have been tried and abandoned. It is simply unrealistic that all the issues that have plagued these designs will magically disappear with new ones.