On 6/9/07, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
geni a écrit : You have to take into account energy used for research, building the reactor, for fluel production and reprocessing, and the future energy used for dismantling the plant. When this is accounted, very little is left if any for a single reactor. The interest of fast breeder reactor is really for producing military grade plutonium. Energy is at best a by-product.
Regards,
Yann
over 98,179,200,000 KWH is a heck of a lot of energy.
You don't need fast breeders to make plutonium (can be done with a magnox light water reactor) and I doubt japan's program is weapons based.