The next breeder reactor will not start operation until around 2010, if then.
It has a small fast breeder reactor and is planning a much larger one.
Congress dropped the last financing for a breeder reactor in 1983.
In a breeder reactor, the conversion ratio is higher than 1.
Using breeder reactors makes the supply of nuclear fuel larger.
Another issue was the high cost of building and operating breeder reactors to produce electricity.
It can be made into fissile uranium-233 in a breeder reactor.
A conversion ratio of greater than 1, which makes breeder reactors possible.
So one of you has built a fast breeder reactor, tested it and come up with these conclusions?
"The risks of this breeder reactor are not extraordinarily high," he said.