Re: I'm hearing bad things about breeder reactors

From: brianb (bri1600bv_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: 11 Jun 2004 07:31:45 -0700

dezakin@usa.net (Dez Akin) wrote in message news:<dd43b4da.0406110034.2d3f2a74@posting.google.com>...
> testbeds, and have their niches, but the best way
> for doing breeding is the critical MSBR. Negitive void coefficient,
> mostly delayed neutrons, thermal expansion of the fuel lowers the
> reactivity, inexpensive online reprocessing removes the nastiest of
> the neutron poisons, high core temperatures that yield high
> thermodynamic efficiency, and economic analysis that indicate that its
> about as competitive with coal fired plants today, more competitive
> than LWR's.
>
> The fast neutron reactors have inertia because they were originally
> designed with one purpose in mind: breed Pu239. MSR's (and every
> thermal breeder) aren't good at that.
>
> The only reactor technology I like better than MSR's are the
> nonexistant fissioning plasma core reactor ideas... if we could find a
> way to make sure the plasma flourides don't eat away at the reactor
> core vessel. Maybe the fusion plasma physics guys should redirect
> their efforts for a while.
Dez Akin, you know an incredible amount. What is your academic and
technical background, may I ask?

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