fast breeder reactor

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West Germany has a new "fast-breeder" reactor that generates electricity�and produces enough plutonium to build 36 A-bombs of Hiroshima firepower per year.

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Clearly in trouble, though, is the liquid-metal, fast-breeder reactor, which has swallowed the major share of federal energy R. and D. dollars in recent years.

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Nixon told Congress last year: "Our best hope today for meeting the nation's growing demand for clean energy lies with the fast-breeder reactor."

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The Superphenix fast-breeder reactor, a joint venture with Italy and Germany, is working, though it has been dogged by technical problems and will never recover its $4.5 billion development cost.

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In 1983 France will complete work on its massive 1,200-megawatt Super Phenix, the country's second fast-breeder reactor.

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