"fast reactor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fast reactors [plural]
Etymology: Clipping of fast-neutron reactor. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|fast-neutron reactor}} Clipping of fast-neutron reactor Head templates: {{en-noun}} fast reactor (plural fast reactors)
  1. (nuclear physics, engineering) A nuclear reactor with no moderator, using fast neutrons directly in a controlled fission chain reaction without slowing them down, allowing for a much more compact reactor which uses fissile material much more efficiently and generates larger quantities of high-energy neutrons which can be used for breeding more fissile material or producing other useful radioactive nuclides, but requiring the use of highly-enriched uranium (at least 20% uranium-235) or other fuel containing a similarly high concentration of fissile material. Wikipedia link: fast-neutron reactor Categories (topical): Engineering, Neutron, Nuclear physics, Uranium

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