It's time to give up on breeder reactors

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It's time to give up on breeder reactors
Journal Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
ISSN 0096-3402
Issue Volume 66, Number 3, May/June 2010
DOI 10.2968/066003007
Online Date Monday, May 03, 2010

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Authors
Thomas B. Cochran, Harold A. Feiveson, Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana, Mycle Schneider, Frank N. von Hippel

Abstract

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, nuclear energy advocates have dreamed of a reactor that could produce more fuel than it used. More than 60 years and $100 billion later, that vision remains as far from reality as ever.

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