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I do need to make one thing perfectly clear, this is a common misconception, but breeder reactors are NOT perpetual motion machines. They take Uranium and a few other materials as input and take the excess neutrons bouncing around during the fission process to make more fissionable material. It's not like you throw a couple banana peels in (though that would be cool), more like uranium 238 or thorium 232, it is not "renewable" by any sense of the term.


A lot of people get confused by the "it makes more fuel than it uses" statement in regards to breeder reactors, but in reality it is doing a bit of alchemy on an existing material.