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Science 10 November 1978:
Vol. 202. no. 4368, pp. 581 - 584
DOI: 10.1126/science.202.4368.581
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Nuclear Power: A Balanced Approach

Corwin L. Rickard 1 and Richard C. Dahlberg 2

1 Executive vice president, Fuel Engineering Division, at General Atomic Company, San Diego, California
2 Director, Fuel Engineering Division, at General Atomic Company, San Diego, California

A proposed technological approach to meeting recognized nuclear power needs is a symbiotic combination of breeders and advanced converter reactors. Breeders, situated in secured areas, would be fueled with and self-sufficient in plutonium. The excess fuel produced in the breeder would be uranium-233, sufficient in quantity to supply several advanced converters located near load centers. This approach is suggested as a balanced way to meet important criteria applicable to the continued development of nuclear power.

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