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Journal Article
Sustainable Energy: The Promise and Perils of the Breeder Reactor
2013
Overview
In recent years, a great deal has been written and discussed about the need for the US to develop sustainable sources of energy that do not pollute the air or water. Although the concept of sustainable energy is a hot-button issue today, attempts to develop such technologies are not new. In 1943, physicist Leo Szilard suggested it might be possible to construct a nuclear reactor that would create or breed fuel, producing an inexhaustible supply of energy. The concept became so compelling that the federal government would vigorously pursue it for the next forty years, with the ultimate goal of having the nation's electricity generated largely by breeder reactors. The purpose of this article is to briefly chronicle major developments in the history of the breeder reactor in the US. It is a history of peaks and valleys, where the federal government attempted to rapidly develop a technology based on what turned out to be a set of erroneous assumptions.
