fast-breeder reactor

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a nuclear reactor that uses little or no moderator and produces more fissionable material than it consumes

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No references found			France is closing its last fast-breeder reactor -- the Phenix -- this year and in 2005 asked to join the Monju project in Japan, which is the only nation without nuclear weapons that still has an FBR programme. Japan eyes restarting controversial 'dream nuclear reactor' by AFP / AFP Asian Edition France is closing its last fast-breeder reactor -- the Phenix -- this year and in 2005 asked to join the Monju project in Japan, which is the only nation without nuclear weapons that still has an FBR programme. Japan eyes restarting controversial 'dream nuclear reactor' by AFP / AFP Global Edition Fast-breeder reactors were conceived in the Fifties when uranium - the nuclear industry's raw material - was scarce. Robots scour sea for atomic waste by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk			Fast Ice Fast Infoset fast ion Fast IP fast lane fast line fast neutron fast nova Fast of Gedaliah Fast of the 17th of Tammuz Fast of the Firstborn Fast Packet Fast Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory fast pin fast powder fast pulsar Fast Reactor Fast SCSI fast sheave fast sheet fast time constant fast time scale fast track Fast, Howard Fast-Access Storage fast-breeder reactor fast-burst reactor fast-delay detonation fast-fission factor fast-joint fast-joint butt fast-neutron spectrometry fast-pin hinge fast-response sprinkler fast-spiral drill fast-to-light fast-vibration direction FastCAD FastCGI FastDisk Fastelavn fastener fasteners fastening Fastenings Fastens-een Faster Growth in Production of the Means of Production, Law of Faster LEX fastest mile Fasti Fastidiousness			Fast Wave Electron Heating Fast wavelet transform Fast Wavelet Transform for High Accuracy Fast Web Media Fast Web Services Fast Weekly Household Audience Report Fast Wide Differential Fast Willie Parker fast workers fast workers fast workers fast workers Fast Zero Power Fast Zero-Forcing Block Decision-Feedback Equalizer Fast Zero-Forcing Block Linear Equalizer Fast Zip Cracker Fast, Accurate, and Friendly Fast, Accurate, Cost-effective, Easy Fast, Efficient Lossless Image Compression System Fast, Fun & Friendly Fast, Howard FAST-1 fast-access storage Fast-Acquisition Interleaved Spin-Echo fast-acting insulin Fast-attack submarine Fast-attack submarine Fast-attack submarine fast-breaking fast-breeder reactor fast-burst reactor FAST-CD fast-delay detonation Fast-Exchange Two-State Fast-Fading Wireless Vector Channel Fast-Filter Processor fast-fission factor Fast-Flux Service Network fast-flying fast-food fast-food Fast-food eatery Fast-food eatery Fast-food outlet Fast-food outlet Fast-food outlets Fast-food outlets Fast-food restaurants Fast-food restaurants fast-footed fast-forward fast-forwarded fast-forwarding fast-forwards fast-frequency-hopping net fast-frequency-hopping training net fast-growing Fast-Growing Language of Initialisms and Acronyms Fast-handed

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