Reactors that use fast neutrons or make more fissile fuel than they burn, including breeder reactors, sodium-cooled fast reactors, the integral fast reactor and the gas-cooled fast reactor. A technology belongs here when its cited article describes a fast or breeder reactor. These reactors rely on fast neutrons without a moderator, and they can turn fertile material into new fissile fuel, which is why they are studied as a way of using uranium far more completely. A reactor is placed here by the fast or breeding design the cited article describes.
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Wikipedia: Breeder reactor
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A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes.
Sodium-cooled fast reactor (Wikipedia)
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A sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) is a fast neutron reactor cooled by liquid sodium.
Integral fast reactor, Wikipedia
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The integral fast reactor (IFR), originally the advanced liquid-metal reactor (ALMR), is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron moderator (a "fast" reactor).
Wikipedia: Gas-cooled fast reactor
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The gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR) system is a nuclear reactor design in development.
Lead-cooled fast reactor (Wikipedia)
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The lead-cooled fast reactor is a nuclear reactor design that uses molten lead or lead-bismuth eutectic as its coolant.
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