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Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does. Not so in China, India, and Russia. Starting even earlier, Russia has built two fast breeder reactors, which are still operating today. Weapons-grade plutonium can be separated chemically from the blanket.

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Other work focuses on sodium as an earth-abundant alternative to lithium, but while it could lower cost, sodium ions also carry just a single charge. Thompson previously served from 2000 to 2014 as co-chair of the MIT Singapore Alliance’s Program in Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems. Energy Mater. ,

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