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>These kinds of reactors you mention are vapourware and have been for quite some time. Depends on a country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor) htt
by fuoqi 6y ago
>These kinds of reactors you mention are vapourware and have been for quite some time.
Depends on a country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor)
>The reactor uses nitride uranium-plutonium fuel, is a breeder reactor and can burn long-term radioactive waste.
I think existing BN reactors can also be used in the same way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor
Yes, it's not 100% ready technology (e.g. there are problems with fuel fabrication), but I would call it last stages of development.
- qayxc 6y agoThe BN-800 reactor was an engineering nightmare, though. Those things had more downtime due to technical issues than operation time. The issues were indeed so severe, that the follow-up project (BN-1200) required a redesign and was put on hold indefinitely...
- fuoqi 6y agoIIRC most issues were caused by problems and delays with fuel fabrication, mentioned in my post. And changes in fuel fabrication is one of the main reasons for postponing BN-1200 construction (i.e. it does not make sense to build a reactor, while fuel production line is not ready).