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Experimental Breeder Reactor I was created in 1950.
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A breeder reactor is one type of nuclear reactor, but not a type that is in general commercial use at the present time
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The person who invented the Breeder Reactor in the 1950s was by a team led by Walter Zinn
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A breeder reactor is generally defined as a power generating reactor that breeds at least sufficient plutonium to replace the U235/Pu which it has consumed. To the best of my knowledge, North Korea does not have such a reactor.
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The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is located in Kalpakkam, India. It is a breeder reactor designed to produce more fissile material than it consumes, using a combination of plutonium and uranium fuel.
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It is a continuous instantaneous process that happens in the nuclear breeder reactor.
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The breeder reactor produce more fissile fuel than what is consumed while this is not the case for other nuclear reactors.
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It would be used as a more efficient version of a Nuclear Reactor. While a regular nuclear reactor requires almost a factor of 100 greater in fuel amounts, a Breeder reactor uses much less and produces less waste.
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Dounreay PFR (Prototype Fast Reactor)
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The nuclear reactor is different from the breeder reactor because it generates energy through fission.
Historically, in order to be called a breeder, a reactor must be specifically designed to create more fissile material than it consumes.
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In a breeder reactor, uranium-238 absorbs a neutron and transmutes into plutonium-239, which is a fissile material that can sustain a nuclear chain reaction. This plutonium-239 can then be used as fuel in the reactor to produce energy.
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Probable you think to a breeder reactor; this type of nuclear reactor produce more fissile material than it consumes.
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You can't compare and contrast nuclear reactors and breeder reactors, any more than you can compare a lion with a mammal.
A lion is one example of many mammals; a breeder reactor is just one example of many types of nuclear reactor.
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Uranium-238 can be used efficiently in breeder reactors; plutonium is obtained and Pu is a fissile material in situ.
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No, a breeder nuclear reactor does not typically use a moderator. Breeder reactors are designed to produce more fissile material than they consume by using fast neutrons to convert non-fissile isotopes into fissile ones without slowing down the neutrons.
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A breeder reactor generates (in a way) new fuel, sometimes more fuel than it uses, by converting non-fissionable isotopes into fissionable isotopes, through neutron capture.
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Kalpakkam has both Thermal reactor (Madras Atomic Power Station) and Fast Breeder Reactor -FBTR and PFBR (Under construction).
In MAPS (thermal reactor) it is Heavy Water (D2O) Which acts as a coolant as well as moderator, where as in Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) and Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) Sodium (Na) is used as coolant.
Since there should not any moderators for fast reactors D2O will not be used as coolant in fast reactors.
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Moderators are not used in a breeder reactor because their primary purpose is to slow down neutrons to increase the likelihood of fission events in a thermal reactor. In a breeder reactor, fast neutrons are required to convert non-fissile uranium-238 into fissile plutonium-239, so using a moderator would hinder this process.
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The main disadvantage is the positive temperature coefficient of reactivity.
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A breeder reactor is a type of reactor that produces electricity while also creating new nuclear fuel. It achieves this by converting non-fissile isotopes into fissile fuel as it operates, effectively "breeding" its own fuel.
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Fast Breeder Reactors typically use a combination of plutonium-239 and uranium-238 as fuel. This type of reactor produces more fissile material than it consumes, making it an efficient way to generate nuclear power.
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The Pu-239 extracted from a fast breeder reactor can be used as fuel for producing nuclear energy in other reactors. It can also be processed to make nuclear weapons, although this is discouraged by international agreements. Additionally, Pu-239 can be stored or reprocessed for future use.
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b. Uranium is converted into plutonium in a breeder reactor through the process of neutron capture in a fast neutron environment. This allows for the creation of more fissile material than is consumed, making it possible to generate more fuel than is used up in the reactor.
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Nuclear reactors provide a reliable source of energy without greenhouse gas emissions, but they produce nuclear waste that requires safe disposal. Breeder reactors can produce more fuel than they consume and reduce nuclear waste, but they are more complex and expensive to build and operate, and have proliferation risks.
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Its name is Kalpakkam-1 situated at Kalpakkam in TamilNadu, India
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thorium is breed to make uranium-233 fuel
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The first nuclear power plant to produce electricity was the Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) in Arco, Idaho, USA. It began generating electricity in 1951.
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Different types of nuclear plants: Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR); Boiling Water Reactor (BWR); Heavy Water Moderated Reactor (CANDU); Advanced Gascooled Reactor (AGR); Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR); Pebble Bed Gascooled Reactor; Water Cooled Graphite Reactor (RBMK). There are other ideas that only exist on paper.
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Plutonium-239 is produced in a breeder reactor when uranium-238 absorbs a neutron and undergoes two beta decays to become plutonium-239. This process allows the breeder reactor to create more fissile material than it consumes, making it a sustainable source of nuclear fuel.
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This would be a breeder reactor, specifically a fast breeder, which means one that operates with a fast neutron spectrum, ie not a moderated reactor. This breeds fissile fuel from non-fissile U-238. Prototypes have been built and operated but are not commercially viable at the present time as it is easier and cheaper to obtain new fuel from the normal mining-refining-enrichment route.
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You may mean Ununoctium, created in Moscow in 2002. The proposed true name is Moscowium.
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Some early and some experimental reactors used sodium as the primary coolant.
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A Thorium Molten Salt Reactor is a type of nuclear reactor that uses thorium as a fuel instead of uranium. It operates at high temperatures and uses a liquid fuel mixture of molten salts. One potential advantage of this type of reactor is reduced nuclear waste production compared to traditional reactor designs.
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Directly, no. Once fissioned the plutonium is gone (it has transformed to other lighter elements).
However indirectly using a breeder reactor, yes. A plutonium fueled breeder reactor with a uranium breeding blanket will produce more plutonium (from uranium-238) than it consumes. This breeder reactor can at the same time be generating electricity like any other power reactor.
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A breeder reactor is a type of power reactor that operates without a moderator to slow the neutrons. This requires either Uranium fuel enriched to at least 20% Uranium-235 or Plutonium fuel to operate at critical without Uranium-238 in the core capturing the fast neutrons and stopping the chain reaction. Most breeder reactors use a liquid metal coolant (water is both coolant and moderator so it cannot be used) like liquid Sodium, NaK, or Mercury in their primary loop. The core of a breeder reactor is surrounded with a "breeding blanket" of either natural or depleted Uranium plates. The Uranium-238 in this blanket captures neutrons escaping the core and "breeds" Plutonium and other transuranic elements. Periodically plates of the "breeding blanket" are replaced and processed to extract the Plutonium and sometimes other transuranics to make new fuel for that reactor and other reactors. A well tuned breeder reactor can make several times the nuclear fuel it consumes in its lifetime.
There was discussion some years back of using significantly detuned breeder reactors to rapidly destroy the excess of weapons grade Uranium and Plutonium resulting from dismantling of weapons retired due to treaty limits. Not much seems to have happened with that idea.
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Uranium. There is some interest in using thorium in the future.
Thorium cannot be used directly as fuel in a reactor as it does not fission, it requires a fast breeder reactor to convert it to Uranium-233 which does fission.
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Electricity was generated for the first time by a nuclear reactor on December 20, 1951, at the EBR-I experimental station near Arco, Idaho, which initially produced about 100 kW.
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In this type of nuclear reactor the fertile isotope thorium-232 is transformed in the fissile isotope uranium-233 and this act as a nuclear fuel.
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