Traveling wave reactor

Traveling wave reactor

The traveling wave reactor (TWR) was first suggested in the 1990s by Manhattan Project member Edward Teller, a scientist credited with inventing the hydrogen bomb.cite journal
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The broader category of Breeder reactors, an idea from the 1950s, operate on the principle of using the atomic reaction to convert raw "fertile" radioactive material into "fissile" material whose atoms are then more easily split in the reactor.

In a TWR, the conversion process travels through a store of raw fuel, converting it and using it as it goes.cite conference
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title = Novel Reactor Designs To Burn Non-Fissile Fuels
publisher = International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants
date = 2008
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format = PDF
accessdate = 2008-08-21]

TWRs have been modeled, but not yet built.

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