| 1. | Thus, even mass isotopes tend to accumulate, especially in a thermal reactor.
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| 2. | With thorium, it is possible to breed using a thermal reactor.
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| 3. | In thorium fuel cycle thorium-232 absorbs a neutron in either a fast or thermal reactor.
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| 4. | These fast reactors are better suited for the transmutation of other actinides than thermal reactors.
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| 5. | A plan to build an advanced thermal reactor was scrapped earlier this year due to high costs.
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| 6. | Nuclear-power opponents say that if the advanced thermal reactor is economically unfeasible, the more complex breeder certainly will be.
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| 7. | Pu-241 accounts for a significant proportion of fissions in thermal reactor fuel that has been used for some time.
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| 8. | About 30 % of the plutonium originally loaded into MOX fuel is consumed by use in a thermal reactor.
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| 9. | With the commercialization of nuclear power, the reprocessed plutonium was recycled back into MOX nuclear fuel for thermal reactors.
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| 10. | The Advanced Thermal Reactor, or ATR, was envisioned as a transitional model between conventional nuclear reactors and the fast-breeder reactors.
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