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Sustainability 2012, 4, 2745-2764; doi:10.3390/su4102745 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 /journal/sustainability Article A Phased Development of Breed-and-Burn Reactors for Enhanced Nuclear Energy Sustainability Ehud Greenspan University of California Nuclear Engineering Department, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; E-Mail: gehud@; Tel.: +1-510-643-9983; Fax: +1-510-643-9685 Received: 3 September 2012; in revised form: 24 September 2012 / Accepted: 28 September 2012 / Published: 19 October 2012 Abstract: Several options for designing fast reactors to operate in the Breed-and-Burn (B