| 31. | In all moderated reactors, some neutrons of all energy levels will produce fission, including fast neutrons.
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| 32. | This enables fast neutrons to dominate, which can effectively be used to constantly replenish the fuel supply.
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| 33. | When a fast neutron collides with a light nucleus, it loses a large fraction of its energy.
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| 34. | We have international collaboration with other banana breeding centres where gamma rays and fast neutrons are used.
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| 35. | Finally, tritium and deuterium produces fast neutrons which means any reactor burning it would require heavy shielding.
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| 36. | The plutonium-uranium ratio in the ash may even approximate the composition needed for fast neutron reactor fuel.
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| 37. | Fast neutrons are needed to make plutonium, the nuclear fuel that the breeder was meant to produce.
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| 38. | In some designs, the coolant is the moderator and turns the useless fast neutrons into slow ones.
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| 39. | The cross section for interaction with nuclei is much larger for slow neutrons than for fast neutrons.
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| 40. | Moltex Energy based in the UK proposes to build a fast neutron reactor called the Stable Salt Reactor.
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