The next breeder reactor will not start operation until around 2010, if then.

It dropped its own breeder reactor program a decade ago.

Congress dropped the last financing for a breeder reactor in 1983.

It has a small fast breeder reactor and is planning a much larger one.

This is considered an important milestone in breeder reactor technology.

Atomic power plants and especially breeder reactors can also provide some energy needs.

In a breeder reactor, the conversion ratio is higher than 1.

Using breeder reactors makes the supply of nuclear fuel larger.

In particular, he pioneered the development of Soviet fast breeder reactor technology.

The United States dropped out of the breeder reactor business.

A conversion ratio of greater than 1, which makes breeder reactors possible.

It can be made into fissile uranium-233 in a breeder reactor.

In the late 1990's Japan plans to begin building a "demonstration" of such a fast breeder reactor.

"The risks of this breeder reactor are not extraordinarily high," he said.

So one of you has built a fast breeder reactor, tested it and come up with these conclusions?

Another issue was the high cost of building and operating breeder reactors to produce electricity.

All three of those countries have also reprocessed some fuel from breeder reactors.

For energy, the winners are physics, fusion and the breeder reactor.

Like many aspects of nuclear power, fast breeder reactors have been subject to much controversy over the years.

But breeder reactors to produce the plutonium have proved difficult to develop.

At higher uranium prices breeder reactors may be economically justified.

Synthetic fuels and the breeder reactor suffered a similar fate.

China is talking about building a breeder reactor.

The accord would also allow India to build future breeder reactors and keep them outside international inspections.

India has an active development programme featuring both fast and thermal breeder reactors.