A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor capable of generating more fissile material than it consumes. These devices are able to achieve this feat because their neutron economy is high enough to breed more fissile fuel than they use from fertile material like uranium-238 or thorium-232. Breeders were at first considered attractive because of their s...
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A nuclear reactor that produces more fissionable nuclear fuel than it consumes.
A nuclear reactor that produces more fissile material than it consumes. In a breeder reactor, surplus high-energy neutrons transmute a 'breeding blanket' of non-fissile uranium-238 into fissile plutonium-239.
nuclear reactor which produces more fissile material than it consumes NOTE - A breeder reactor has a conversion ratio greater than unity.
see Fast Breeder Reactor and Fast Neutron Reactor.
A nuclear reactor that produces more fissionable nuclear fuel than it consumes.
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see Fast Breeder Reactor and Fast Neutron Reactor.
A nuclear reactor that manufactures more fissionable isotopes than it consumes. Breeder reactors use the widely available, non-fissionable uranium isotope U-238, together with small amounts of fissionable U-235, to produce a fissionable isotope of plutonium, Pu-239.
see Fast Breeder Reactor and Fast Neutron Reactor.
[n] - a nuclear reactor that produces more fissile material than it burns
noun a nuclear reactor that produces more fissile material than it burns
Alternative name for fast reactor, a type of nuclear reactor
A nuclear reactor in which 238U or 232Th, which are not easily fissionable, absorb neutrons to become atoms of 239Pu or 236U, which can later be used as fuels in fission reactors. Breeder technology is not yet feasible.
see Fast Breeder Reactor and Fast Neutron Reactor .