Sentences with phrase «mox fuel plant»
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To use MOX fuel rods, civilian power plants would have to modify their reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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BNFL, which runs a pilot MOX fabrication plant and plans to begin full - scale production in 1997, has already flown MOX fuel to Switzerland.
In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).
Germany has 17 nuclear power plants that are using, or plan to use, MOX fuel.
The January 1997 Record of Decision stated that surplus plutonium would either be immobilized or used as fuel (Mixed - Oxide or MOX) in commercial power plants and the waste would all be disposed in a Nuclear Waste Policy Act repository.
We recognise that it will lead to the preparation of our reprocessing plant and MOX fuel factory.»
Fast reactors feature in Russia's long - term nuclear energy plans, which envisage a move to inherently safe nuclear plants using fast reactors with a closed fuel cycle and mixed - oxide (MOX) fuel.