Werner Czulius's laboratory for uranium reactors.
But for lack of breeder reactors to consume the waste from conventional uranium reactors, the United States has been forced to stockpile vast amounts of dangerous waste.
The Army coordinated Project Atlântico, which tried to develop natural uranium reactors.
Compared to conventional uranium reactors, thorium reactors using the thorium fuel cycle may produce some 40 times the amount of energy per unit of mass.
This was particularly important for Magnox as the unenriched fuel had a low burnup, requiring more frequent changes of fuel than enriched uranium reactors.
If a country has uranium reactors, that doesn't mean it can (or wants to) make bombs.
Höcker performed a theoretical analysis on the geometry for uranium reactors, concluding with the choice of the lattice arrangement.
The heavy water and natural uranium reactors at Khushab are a central element of Pakistan's program to produce plutonium and tritium for use in compact nuclear warheads.
Pa is not formed in uranium reactors, such as Chernobyl, but only in thorium reactors (and also by natural spontaneous fissions with thorium nearby).
Energy from uranium fission would be discovered five years later, after Rutherford's death, and the first uranium reactor would be operating by 1942.