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Even worse and at the root: there is no properly-working industrial fast breeder reactor. The most advanced is the BN-800 (its little brother the BN-600 often
by natmaka 4y ago
Even worse and at the root: there is no properly-working industrial fast breeder reactor.
The most advanced is the BN-800 (its little brother the BN-600 often leaks), and it is not adequate, to the point of its potential big brother the BN-1200 to be postponed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-1200_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-1200_reactor ) and the Russians departing towards a new architecture thanks to a new prototype ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor) ).
This is not due to a lack of projects, well-funded and in many nations, starting in 1946: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Development_and_notable_breeder_reactors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Development_an...