The Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project was a nuclear reactor project that aimed to build the USA's first large-scale demonstration breeder reactor plant.[2] It was led by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (and a successor agency, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), and subsequently the U.S. Department of Energy). The project was opposed by President Carter.[3]
The project was intended as a prototype and demonstration for building a class of such reactors, called Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors (LMFBR), in the United States. The project was first authorized in 1970.[4] After initial appropriations were provided in 1972, work continued until the U.S. Congress terminated funding on October 26, 1983. The project was seen to be "unnecessary and wasteful".[3]
^ abClinch River Breeder Reactor Project Preliminary Safety Analysis Report Summary Volume(PDF). Project Management Corporation. p. SVA-2. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
^Final Report, The Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project(PDF). Breeder Reactor Corporation. January 1985. p. 1. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
^ abPeter A. Bradford. Delivering the nuclear promise, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 2016.
^Congressional Budget Office, Comparative Analysis of Alternative Financing Plans for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project, September 20, 1983
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