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Burnup is an important factor in determining the types and abundances of isotopes produced by a fission reactor. Breeder reactors by design have high burnup compared to a conventional reactor, as breeder reactors produce more of their waste in the form of fission products, while most or all of the actinides are meant to be fissioned and destroyed.
The Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project was a nuclear reactor project that aimed to build the USA's first large-scale demonstration breeder reactor plant. [2] It was led by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (and a successor agency, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), and subsequently the U.S. Department of Energy).
The Experimental Breeder Reactor II. 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 Station in Idaho. It was shut down in 1994. Custody of the reactor was transferred to Idaho National Laboratory after its founding in 2005.
Clinch River Breeder Reactor: 1 FBR: United States Atomic Energy Commission: Cancelled Plan Oak Ridge, Tennessee: 350 380 1973 - 1983-11-01 Clinton: 2 BWR: GE BWR-6: Cancelled Construction Clinton, Illinois: 933 985 1973 1975-10-01 1983-10-01 Columbia (WNP-1/WPPSS-1) 1 PWR: Cancelled Construction Richland, Washington: 1,259 1,339 1972 1975-08 ...
MSRE was a 7.4 MW th test reactor simulating the neutronic "kernel" of a type of epithermal thorium molten salt breeder reactor called the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR). The large (expensive) breeding blanket of thorium salt was omitted in favor of neutron measurements.
The primary physical advantage of thorium fuel is that it uniquely makes possible a breeder reactor that runs with slow neutrons, otherwise known as a thermal breeder reactor. [6] These reactors are often considered simpler than the more traditional fast-neutron breeders. Although the thermal neutron fission cross section (σ f) of the ...
research reactor, in operation since 1958 (demonstrated at the Expo 58 in Brussels), since 1959 at the University of Basel. Decommissioned in 2020. [55] SAPHIR Würenlingen: Pool Decommissioned 10,000 1957-04-30 1993 Paul Scherrer Institut: Lucens: Lucens, Vaud: heavy-water moderated, carbon dioxide gas-cooled. pilot nuclear power plant ...
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) southeast of Arco, Idaho. It was the world's first breeder reactor . [ 3 ]