单词 | breeder pile |
释义 | > as lemmasbreeder pile 4. Nuclear Engineering. In full breeder reactor, breeder pile: an apparatus that can create more fissile material than it consumes in the chain reaction. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear reactor > [noun] > creating more than it consumes breeder pile1948 fast breeder1949 1948 R. E. Lapp & H. L. Andrews Nucl. Radiation Physics xvi. 401 The development of a breeder-type reactor. 1948 R. E. Lapp & H. L. Andrews Nucl. Radiation Physics xvi. 481 Breeder pile. 1948 U.S. Atomic Energy Comm. 3rd Semi-Ann. Rep. 12 The ‘breeder’ type of reactor, a ‘nuclear chain reactor which over a period of time will actually create more fissionable material than is put into the reactor as fuel to sustain the reaction’. 1949 Sci. Amer. July 36 A ‘breeder’ reactor that would produce new fissionable atoms as fast as it used the old ones up. 1950 Ann. Reg. 1949 423 An engineering design for an experimental ‘breeder’ atomic pile had been completed. 1950 Chem. Industries Jan. 28/2 Of the four reactors, two are breeders and two are non-breeders. 1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 380 The successful operation of so-called breeder reactors, which made new fuel as they burnt their own. 1969 Sci. Jrnl. July 41/3 Eight or nine countries..are hurrying to develop practical reactors that will produce more fissile material than they consume; that is, breeder reactors. 1969 Sci. Jrnl. July 41/3 Breeders are seen as opening the door to virtually unlimited energy. < as lemmas |
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