The first breeder reactor, went online almost 75 years ago. But today, only two remain active across the globe. Our question is simply, why?

After Russia, India To Have Commercially Operating Fast Breeder Reactor. The uranium-238 “blanket” will undergo nuclear transmutation ...

Carolyn Krause concludes her series looking at Stan Thompson, Glenn Seaborg, and Alvin Weinberg with this look at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment.

The so-called “waste-eating” reactors are simply… breeder reactors like Superphénix, a type of reactor that the global nuclear industry has failed to get up and running for 70 years. (Photo ...

A fast breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that uses fast neutrons to generate more plutonium than the nuclear fuels it originally consumes.

The conversion of nuclear waste into tritium could reshape energy production, providing a vital resource for fusion and ...

Carter advocated to end breeder reactor development and promoted light water reactors as the standard design. All 94 nuclear reactors operating in the U.S. today are light water reactors that were ...

New Delhi | India's first prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tamil Nadu's Kalpakkam is expected to be commissioned next year, nearly two years after it got the go-ahead from the nuclear regulator ...

OKLO's Aurora powerhouse uses a passively safe fast reactor design that can recycle used nuclear fuel into clean energy.

This article examines the history of the fast breeder reactor as a forerunner technology in three Western nuclear nations—the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—to clarify just how this ...

Atomic energy has passed a new and important milestone. Last week Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean told an Atlantic City meeting that the AEC's "breeder reactor" at arco.