A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fueled with more-commonly available...

The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is a 500 MWe sodium-cooled, fast breeder reactor that is being constructed at the same site as the Madras Atomic...

Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) is a decommissioned research reactor and U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 18 miles (29 km)...

Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) was a sodium-cooled fast reactor designed, built and operated by Argonne National Laboratory at the National Reactor Testing...

reactor (LMR) is a type of nuclear reactor where the primary coolant is a liquid metal. Liquid metal cooled reactors were first adapted for breeder reactor...

characteristics also cause fast reactors to be judged a higher nuclear proliferation risk, especially as breeder reactors require nuclear reprocessing,...

development of civil fast breeder reactors, and the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), a military submarine reactor testing facility. Both these...

the Power Reactor and the Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation, the Government concern that ran the country's prototype fast-breeder reactor. Officials...

power plant using a thorium fuel cycle in a breeder reactor. Increased research into Generation IV reactor designs renewed interest in the 21st century...

the thorium-based Light Water Breeder Reactor (LWBR) core installed at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station. The reactor of this power plant was designed...

5623504°N 80.1645415°E / 12.5623504; 80.1645415 The Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is a breeder reactor located at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India. The Indira...

breeder reactor at Kalpakkam over". The Hindu. 26 November 2011. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 23 August 2023. DHNS. "India to get fast breeder reactor in...

The BN-1200 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor project, under development by OKBM Afrikantov in Zarechny, Russia. The BN-1200 is based on...

The BN-600 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It has...

Route 20 and U.S. Route 26, but most of the area (except Experimental Breeder Reactor I) is restricted to authorized personnel and requires appropriate security...

economically extractable thorium reserves. The first Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor has been repeatedly delayed – and is currently expected to be commissioned...

(fluoride high-temperature reactors) and still have a solid fuel. Molten salt reactors, as a class, include both burners and breeders in fast or thermal spectra...

Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project was a nuclear reactor project that aimed to build the USA's first large-scale demonstration breeder reactor plant. It...

comes from pressurized and boiling water reactors. Other designs include gas-cooled, fast-spectrum, breeder, heavy-water, molten-salt, and small modular;...

The BN-800 reactor (Russian: реактор БН–800) is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk...

the reactor core and a heat exchanger. The US EBR-2, French Phénix and others used this approach, and it is used by India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor...

Reactor developed by Argonne National Laboratory between 1984 and 1994. It is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, based on the Experimental Breeder...

The Phénix breeder reactor in France was powered down in 2009 after 36 years of operation. Both China and India are building breeder reactors. The Indian...

thermal breeder reactor. It kept the same seed-and-blanket design, but the seed was now uranium-233 and the blanket was made of thorium. Being a breeder reactor...

these power plants. Breeder technology has been used in several experimental nuclear reactors. By December 2005, the only breeder reactor producing power...

on the shore of the Caspian Sea. Construction of the BN-350 fast breeder reactor began in 1964,: 785  and the plant first produced electricity in 1973...

reactor types Generation II reactor Generation III reactor Integral fast reactor Stable salt reactor Liquid fluoride thorium reactor Breeder reactor Small...

engineering directed towards the development of fast breeder reactor technology in India. The fast reactor related research in India, originated at BARC, Mumbai...

of the BREST reactor are passive safety and a closed fuel cycle. The reactor uses nitride uranium-plutonium fuel, is a breeder reactor and can burn long-term...

IFR was a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) is its closest surviving fast breeder reactor, a type of Generation IV reactor. The U.S. Department of Energy...