In reality, it's very difficult to keep the neutrons moving that quickly so
fast reactors still need a bit of enriched uranium to operate, but U-238 is fissioned to much more of a degree than in thermal reactors.
Fast reactors still have fans.
Not exact matches
Still, progress on the toroidal coils seems
faster than on the second of the
reactor's key magnetic arrays, the so - called poloidal field coils.
The real message, though, must be for those in the nuclear industry who
still believe that it makes sense to press ahead with a European demonstration
fast reactor.
We may
still need
faster supercomputers to simulate how we need to design these
reactors to effectively control the plasma in these
reactors.