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No, fast neutron reactors are less poisonable, and can achieve much higher burnups even with conventional fuel.
by baybal2 5y ago
No, fast neutron reactors are less poisonable, and can achieve much higher burnups even with conventional fuel.
- jhgb 5y agoWell, I didn't dispute any of these two. I'm just not sure how one can claim that a breeder's spent fuel "has relatively short half life" when the actinides from a breeder (such as Pu239) have medium half life and a breeder is specifically designed to produce them in substantial amounts, higher than the original load of fissile material.