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The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor: An Environmental and Economic Critique.

Jean-Claude Derian, J. H. Hollomon, Thomas B. Cochran

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U The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor by Thomas Cochran' reviews the costs and potential benefits of the AEC's major RD Section 2 provides a thorough examination of safety and environmental considerations. Cochran's systematic analysis of all these economic and environmental parameters suggests, in sharp contrast with the AEC's optimistic view, that the potential benefits expected from

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Key concepts: Liquid metal, Breeder reactor, Economics, Breeder (animal), Physics, Nuclear physics, Materials science, Metallurgy