Talk:Breeding blanket

Fusion only?
"Breeding blanket" has to my knowledge also been applied to fission reactors, but without searching, I don't have any sources which talk about that.--- Avatar317 (talk) 05:13, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I suspect you're thinking of fast breeder reactors. In that case the blanket is made of other high-Z metals, almost always U238 ("depleted" uranium). Sometimes this is indeed referred to as a blanket, but they use other terms as well. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:14, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That's exactly what I meant, for breeding Pu239 or U233. I'm not familiar with the other terms, but I thought that if we had sources which talked about these as used for breeding fissionable isotopes, than maybe we should mention it in this article.--- Avatar317 (talk) 02:16, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
 * A breeding blanket is also used/proposed for "breeder" type fission reactors. Whether it be thermal (thorium) or fast (U-Pu). Whether a thermal breeder blanket for the U-Pu cycle has ever been proposed is beyond my ken. Probably the neutronics don't work, but they might in a CANDU... Hobbitschuster (talk) 19:28, 21 February 2022 (UTC)