Sentence examples for fast breeders from inspiring English sources

The idea of fast breeders as the ultimate goal of nuclear power engineering goes back to the 1950s, when experts predicted that fast-breeders would generate all Britain's electricity by the 1970s.

Several design options of core catchers for fast breeders are discussed in the present work with particular emphasis on a multi layer core catcher.

For example, she says, biologists could separate fast breeders into one group, essentially creating an artificial bottleneck, and let them reproduce with abandon, without fearing a loss of critical genetic diversity.

It is not certain - the British AGRs had their problems, and fast breeders have also seen a number of incidents.

fast breeder reactors (60 times as much energy/kg U, less waste, but more expensive, and slow to deploy so development should not be delayed too long): fast breeders look promising as 'waste burners' to be used in conjunction with conventional reactors.

Another idea is to reuse uranium in "fast breeder" reactors.

MONJU is a prototype fast breeder reactor (FBR) in Japan.

Alternatively, U233 can be generated externally in fast breeder reactors.

These results are very important and give direction for future designs of fast breeder reactors.

The second stage consists of plutonium fuelled fast breeder reactors to produce U-233 from thorium.

Prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) is at an advanced stage of construction in Kalpakkam, India.