India’s indigenous nuclear reactor prototype and abundant thorium reserves hold the key to the country’s future energy security.

Fast Breeders Want To Close The Fuel Cycle ... One of the primary forms of waste from a typical nuclear light water reactor (LWR) is the spent fuel from the fission reaction.

As nuclear reactors popped up ever faster during ... which led to increased R&D in so-called fast reactors, which in the fast-breeder reactor (FBR) configuration can use uranium fuel significantly ...

India’s Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) and the China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR). New concepts, technologies and advances in materials research, combined with a long-term vision of nuclear ...

Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors, there remain public ... remain focused on LWR technology rather than the breeder. The weakest link in the design of a hybrid ...

The nation's most serious commercial nuclear plant accident...did not alter this unparalleled record of safety." October — Congress votes to kill funding for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor ...

A nuclear power plant that has been decommissioned ... It will use high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II and be located at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Global interest in fast reactors has been growing since their inception in 1960 because they can provide efficient, safe and sustainable energy. Their closed fuel cycle can support long-term nuclear ...