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The doubling time is the amount of time it would take for a breeder reactor to produce enough new fissile material to replace the original fuel and additionally produce an equivalent amount of fuel for another nuclear reactor. This was considered an important measure of breeder performance in early years, when uranium was thought to be scarce.
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).
Unit 1: Liquid Metal FBR Tooltip Fast Breeder Reactor Unit 2: BWR/4 (Mark 1) Units planned: 1 × 1520 MW ESBWR: Units decommissioned: 1 × 61 MW Liquid Metal FBR Tooltip Fast Breeder Reactor: Nameplate capacity: 1150 MW: Capacity factor: 99.01% (2019) 76.3% (lifetime, excluding Unit 1) Annual net output: 9,369 GWh (2021) External links; Website ...
It was originally the site of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project. In February 2022, the site was announced as the first location of a small modular reactor as part of the TVA's New Nuclear Program, which was approved the same year. [1] [2]
United States Army: SM-1A: Fort Greely: Electricity and heat supply: Decommissioned: 2000: 13 March 1962 to 1972: United States Army: PM-2A: Camp Century, Greenland: Electricity and steam supply: Decommissioned: 2000: 3 October 1960: United States Army: PM-1: Sundance Air Force Station: PWR: Electricity and steam supply: Decommissioned: 1250: ...
The plutonium created could be used to fuel the breeder core, with enough left over to run other reactors. A breeder potentially generates not only electricity, but also income through fuel sales. The first power-producing reactor was a breeder, the Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) at what became the Idaho National Laboratory. On December ...
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 ]
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.