Sentences with phrase «natanz uranium enrichment plant»

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.

A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.

Meanwhile, it emerged that France has been paying Russia more than $ 20 million a year to treat French nuclear waste at the uranium enrichment plant at Tomsk.

WHEN Mostafa Ahmadi - Roshan, a chemist at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in Iran, was killed on 11 January by a magnetic bomb stuck to his car, he became the fifth such victim in Iran, according to William Tobey of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

Another aspect of the world uranium situation is the uranium enrichment plant proposed for Eunice, New Mexico by Louisiana Energy Services (LES).

A measure of the effort expended in a uranium enrichment plant to separate uranium of a given U235 content into two components, one having a higher percentage of U235 and the other a lower concentration.

The UF6 Manual: Good Handling Practices for Uranium Hexafluoride, USEC - 651, is the tenth revision of a document first issued by the Atomic Energy Agency in 1957 to provide information on how uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is handled in a uranium enrichment plant.

GE - Hitachi's subsidiary Global Laser Enrichment is poised to receive a license to build and operate the world's first laser - based uranium enrichment plant.

Not exact matches

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this week granted a licence to allow construction of a plant that uses a controversial uranium enrichment process — one that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear - proliferation risk.

But researchers in and outside Iran are cautiously optimistic about an intriguing spin - off of the agreement — a proposal to convert the Fordow uranium - enrichment plant into an international physics laboratory, as well as opportunities for collaborations that will arise if sanctions are eased.

In real life, once Groves decided to kill centrifugal separation in favor of uranium enrichment by gaseous diffusion, Karl became one of the planners for the big gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

In addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plants.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

After visiting the uranium enrichment pilot plant at the Naval Research Laboratory, a team of Manhattan Project experts recommends that a liquid thermal diffusion plant be built to feed enriched material to the electromagnetic enrichment plant at Oak Ridge, the S - 50 Pplant at the Naval Research Laboratory, a team of Manhattan Project experts recommends that a liquid thermal diffusion plant be built to feed enriched material to the electromagnetic enrichment plant at Oak Ridge, the S - 50 Pplant be built to feed enriched material to the electromagnetic enrichment plant at Oak Ridge, the S - 50 Pplant at Oak Ridge, the S - 50 PlantPlant.

The enrichment of uranium at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant in Kentucky released massive amounts (25 % world's total) of chlorofluorocarbons («CFCs») before operations ceased.

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