The First Experimental Breeder Reactor, the EBR-1 Perhaps to start off with a story: Miners search for a hard to find mineral, a special kind of dirt. This special dirt is important because a small percentage of it is useable as a fuel to make energy in a special machine. The rare dirt and the small useable percentage make it difficult to make energy. Then someone devises another special machine that uses the small percentage of useable fuel dirt, makes energy and converts the unsuitable dirt into more fuel, more fuel than the machine needs to make energy. That is like putting ten gallons of gas in your auto, driving a hundred miles and then have fifteen gallons of gas remaining in your tank. Sounds crazy, but that is what a breeder reactor does, produce more
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