Fusion--fision hybrid breeders: economic and performance issues, role of advanced converters, interdependence between fission and fusion programs

This paper considers nuclear breeding systems (i.e., production of fissile fuel from fertile materials). The range of breeding technologies considered is deliberately wide. We include systems which breed by using internal neutron sources--a reactor-breeder, exemplified by the liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR)--and systems which breed by using external neutron sources--exemplified in this paper primarily by hybrid fusion-fission breeders