A nuclear reactor that converts fertile material into fissile material.
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- A catalytic converter assembly includes two converter reactors connected one after the other in the exhaust gas flow.
- Chapter 7 reviews the possible role of advanced converter reactors as an intermediate step between today's thermal reactors and future fast breeder systems.
- This is because advanced converter reactors are optimised to achieve high conversion ratios and, in the case of heavy water moderated variants, low fissile inventories.
- The use of breeding or converter reactors would change considerably the above picture.
- The material has a proven use in breeder and converter reactor systems.