FAST+BREEDER+REACTOR+-+Olivier

__What is it?__ The fast breeder or fast breeder reactor (FBR) is a fast neutron reactor designed to breed fuel by producing more fissile material than it consumes. The reactors are used in nuclear power plants to produce nuclear power and nuclear fuel. As of 2006, there has been two different designs. One of them being Fast breeder reactor and the other being Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR):  -Loop type, in which the primary coolant is circulated through primary heat exchangers external to the reactor  -//Pool// type, in which the primary heat exchangers and circulators are immersed in the reactor tank.  __Example__ Prototype FBR have also been built cooled by other liquid metals such as mercury, lead and NaK (an alloy of sodium (Na) and pottasium (K)). But FBRs usually use a mixed oxide core of up to 20% plutonium dioxide (PuO2) and at least 80% uranium dioxide (UO2).  __Environmental Risk__ Nonrenewable, because it relies on uranium being found and extracted from ores, and there is no way to replace this once it is used up. It is true you can make fissile material from nonfissile U-238, but then eventually all the U-238 would be used up, so that breeding process just enables more energy to be obtained from the uranium source, it does not make any more

__Statistics__ 
 * = **Output:** ||= **MWe** ||= **MW (thermal)** ||= **Operation** ||
 * ~ USA ||
 * ~ EBR 1 || 0.2 ||  || 1951-63 ||
 * ~ EBR II || 20 || 62.5 || 1963-94 ||
 * ~ Fermi 1 || 66 ||  || 1963-72 ||
 * ~ SEFOR ||  || 20 || 1969-72 ||
 * ~ Fast Flux Test Facility ||  || 400 || 1980-93 ||
 * ~ UK ||
 * ~ Dounreay FR || 15 ||  || 1959-77 ||
 * ~ Protoype FR || 270 ||  || 1974-94 ||
 * ~ France ||
 * ~ Rapsodie ||  || 40 || 1966-82 ||
 * ~ Phenix* || 250 ||  || 1973-2009 ||
 * ~ Superphenix 1 || 1240 ||  || 1985-98 ||
 * ~ Germany ||
 * ~ KNK 2 || 21 ||  || 1977-91 ||
 * ~ India ||
 * ~ FBTR ||  || 40 || 1985- ||
 * ~ Japan ||
 * ~ Joyo ||  || 140 || 1978- ||
 * ~ Monju || 280 ||  || 1994-96, 2010- ||
 * ~ Kazakhstan ||
 * ~ BN 350* || 135 ||  || 1972-99 ||
 * ~ Russia ||
 * ~ BR 5 /10 Obninsk ||  || 5 /8 || 1959-71, 1973- ||
 * ~ BOR 60 Dimitrovgrad || 12 ||  || 1969- ||
 * ~ BN 600* Beloyarsk || 560 ||  || 1980- ||
 * ~ China ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ~ CEFR ||  ||= 65 ||= 2010- ||

  Reference   -://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_breeder_reactor  -http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf98.html