Word: rossin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulbs were powered by the first tiny breeder 30 years ago, and a 200-MW breeder plant was fired up-and failed-near Detroit in 1966. Conventional nuclear reactors also create fuel, but about 35% less than they consume, rather than, like breeders, about 20% more. Says A. David Rossin of the American Nuclear Society: "Breeder reactors will be needed. To abandon Clinch River now would be a crippling blow to the U.S. breeder program." Agrees Pietro Pasqua, a physicist at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville: "We ought to be proceeding as fast...