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<p><font size="2">An excerpt from the websites below on Generation IV nuclear reactors designs:</font></p>
<p><font size="2">"However, it is significant that to address non-proliferation concerns, the fast neutron reactors are not conventional fast breeders, ie they do not have a blanket assembly where plutonium-239 is produced. Instead, plutonium production takes place in the core, where burn-up is high and the proportion of plutonium isotopes other than Pu-239 remains high. In addition, new reprocessing technologies will enable the fuel to be recycled without separating the plutonium."</font></p>
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<h1 class="InfoBodyHeading"><font size="2">Generation IV Nuclear Reactors</font></h1>
<p align="right">(updated June 2010)</p>
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<li><strong>An international task force is developing six nuclear reactor technologies for deployment between 2020 and 2030. Four are fast neutron reactors.</strong>
<li><strong>All of these operate at higher temperatures than today's reactors. In particular, four are designated for hydrogen production.</strong>
<li><strong>All six systems represent advances in sustainability, economics, safety, reliability and proliferation-resistance.</strong> </li></li></li></ul></div>
<div><a href="http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf77.html">http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf77.html</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.usnuclearenergy.org/GEN%20IV%20Reactors.htm">http://www.usnuclearenergy.org/GEN%20IV%20Reactors.htm</a></div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>