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Concept Introduction: A breeder nuclear reactor is a reactor in which non fissionable (nonfissile) U-238 is converted into fissionable (fissile) Pu-239.
The bombardment of nuclei with a neutron increases the mass number of nuclei by one.
Nuclei that contain too many neutrons often undergo beta (β) decay, in which a neutron is converted to a proton and a high-energy electron that is ejected from the nucleus as a β particle:
When nuclei undergo beta decay it
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