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What does BR stand for?

Breeder Reactor


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Samples in periodicals archive:
With the commencement of reprocessing at Kalpakkam Reprocessing Plant (KARP) in Tamil Nadu recently and continued operation of reprocessing plants at Arapur and Trombay (BARC), India's rate of production of fuel material for fast breeder reactor is substantially enhanced, Banerjee said.
Talking to Express, he said the metallic fuel has a higher breeding ratio compared to the oxide fuel to be used in the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR).
However, India would continue intense research and development of fast breeder reactors and Thorium utilisation that constituted the second and the third stages, thus closing the nuclear fuel cycle, Dr Chidambaram said.
MFBR) that engages in the development of fast breeder reactors (FBR).
As head of the Ministry of Supply's nuclear engineering programme, he was charged with finding suitable site on which to build a new type of fast breeder reactor.
The federal government scrapped its breeder reactor program in the 1980s after deciding it had misjudged the nation's electricity needs.
Some of that highly enriched uranium was used to fuel the Dounreay power station fast breeder reactor.
Breeder reactors offer a self-sustaining source of energy.

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