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Old 06-10-2009, 03:19 PM   #64 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by roflwaffle View Post
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's doing alchemy, just that it's getting more energy out of the fuel than w/ a once through cycle.
They are in fact 'doing alchemy'. By bombarding non-fissile uranium or thorium, they gain a neutron and become fissile.

It's actually pretty damned cool eh? A true breeder reactor, you could supply nothing but non-fissile fuel, and fission would continue anyway! Thus 'making' fuel.
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