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  • The technology to dispose of spent PWR fuel is the fast-breeder reactor, which gets rid of the plutonium etc. instead of just burying it.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved 2010

  • Should the Department of Energy wish to engage private industry in its development of commercially built reactors, it should review the methods used in the development of the fast-breeder reactor.

    A Reasonable Start, but We Need More on Nuclear Power 2010

  • Here is one example, which obviously is a meme from somewhere in the right-wing fast-breeder reactor, because it seems to be repeated a lot.

    Brake dancing Tom Toles 2010

  • After all, although the deal puts a growing majority of India's reactors under International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring, New Delhi has declined to allow such "safeguards" to be enacted for its experimental fast-breeder program and eight indigenous power reactors, though they are far from ideal for bomb making.

    India's Nuclear Example Rory Medcalf 2010

  • The technology to dispose of spent PWR fuel is the fast-breeder reactor, which gets rid of the plutonium etc. instead of just burying it.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved 2010

  • Should the Department of Energy wish to engage private industry in its development of commercially built reactors, it should review the methods used in the development of the fast-breeder reactor.

    A Reasonable Start, but We Need More on Nuclear Power 2010

  • Kazakhstan Energy Partnership announced the completion of a secret year-long operation to transfer 14 tons of highly enriched uranium and plutonium -- enough to make more than 770 nuclear weapons - from a mothballed fast-breeder reactor near the Caspian Sea to a new high security facility in northeastern Kazakhstan.

    Al Eisele: Kazakhstan Shows Senate How to Start New Start Treaty Al Eisele 2010

  • Should the Department of Energy wish to engage private industry in its development of commercially built reactors, it should review the methods used in the development of the fast-breeder reactor.

    A Reasonable Start, but We Need More on Nuclear Power 2010

  • Kazakhstan Energy Partnership announced the completion of a secret year-long operation to transfer 14 tons of highly enriched uranium and plutonium -- enough to make more than 770 nuclear weapons - from a mothballed fast-breeder reactor near the Caspian Sea to a new high security facility in northeastern Kazakhstan.

    Al Eisele: Kazakhstan Shows Senate How to Start New Start Treaty Al Eisele 2010

  • India is building a fast-breeder reactor that is expected to begin operation in 2010 and is outside International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.

    Zia Mian: Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink 2009

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