Sentences with phrase «uranium fuel cycle»

EPA, «40 CFR 190 Environmental Radiation Protection Requirements for Normal Operations of Activities in the Uranium Fuel Cycle: Final Environmental Statement, Volumes 1 & 2.»

NRC, NUREG - 0543, «Methods for Demonstrating LWR Compliance with the EPA Uranium Fuel Cycle Standard (40 CFR Part 190),» January 1980.

What happened in the fifties and sixties is that instead of pursuing a cheap safe nuclear option we chose to pursue dirty inefficient light water reactors because the uranium fuel cycle produces bomb grade materials

If that thought is not enough, consider this, the current fission products from the uranium fuel cycle may be mitigated using some of the reactors that are capable of initiating the thorium fuel cycle.

If that thought is not enough, consider this, the current fission products from the uranium fuel cycle may be mitigated using some of the reactors that are capable of initiating the thorium fuel cycle.

Our expertise includes uranium chemistry, nuclear facility licensing, criticality analysis, and alternative uranium fuel cycles.

Not exact matches

Waste from the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle is usually alpha emitting waste from the extraction of uranium.

The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, often contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and may contain actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium - 234, neptunium - 237, plutonium - 238 and americium - 241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as Cf.

Most of Nangonya's training covered the subjects that might be expected: the ins and outs of the nuclear fuel cycle, how to verify that each and every reported gram of plutonium and uranium are where they are supposed to be, and how to spot signs of illicit activity.

The article, published recently in Open Chemistry may lead to the development of a process to remove uranium from wastewater at the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle, or even extracting natural uranium from sea water.

The separation of uranium, a key part of the nuclear fuel cycle, could potentially be done more safely and efficiently through a new technique developed by chemistry researchers at Oregon State University.

«What do you get by complicating the fuel cycle by looking at thorium when we have plenty of uranium?»

An optimized closed (fast - reactor) fuel cycle would recycle not just the uranium and plutonium but all actinides in the fuel, including neptunium, americium and curium.

According to Global Nuclear Fuels, the GNF2 design delivers higher energy output whilst cutting overall fuel cycle costs, reducing the total amount of uranium and the average enrichment in fuel reloads.

«For example,» said Clark, «Used fuel, which is currently disposed of in the United States after a single use in a reactor in what is called an open fuel cycle, would be reprocessed to extract out a significant fraction of re-useable uranium.

Find out how the uranium fuel that powers the world's nuclear reactors is mined and processed in several important steps that make up the nuclear fuel cycle.

While thorium itself looks relatively benign compared with uranium, the fuel cycle produces a number of highly radioactive by - products.

Opportunities exist for the diversion of weapons - usable material at the front end of the fuel cycle, during which natural uranium is enriched to make reactor fuel.

Until these risks are properly mitigated and the complete nuclear fuel cycle — from the mining and milling of uranium to the final disposal of radioactive wastes — is sufficiently regulated, nuclear power should not be a leading strategy for diversifying America's energy portfolio and reducing carbon pollution.

Dr. Walker highlighted the vulnerability of the entire nuclear fuel cycle — from uranium mining to nuclear enrichment to commercial nuclear power to spent fuel storage, transportation, and finally reprocessing.

A: The way the fuel cycle is done now is: you mine uranium; you purify the metal; you convert it to oxide; you put it in a reactor in the form of pellets; it stays in there for about three years; you take it out, and you try to find someplace to put it.

The way the IFR fuel cycle would work would be: you could start with mined uranium, or you could start with fuel for present day reactors.

Actually, if you properly do the math - and count if you count the whole nuclear fuel cycle, not just the power plant, not just the core of the reactor, but the occlusion zone, the uranium mining and so on, it turns out that wind power uses hundreds or thousands of times less land per kilowatt hour, then nuclear does.

The nuclear fuel cycle begins when uranium is mined, enriched, and manufactured into nuclear fuel, (1) which is delivered to a nuclear power plant.

«Closed cycle» means quarantining the entire nuclear chain — from uranium mining to spent fuel burial — at a single, isolated, secure, safeguarded place.

The nuclear fuel cycle begins when uranium is mined, enriched, and manufactured into nuclear fuel, (1) which is delivered to a

This seminar examined the impacts of the beginning of the nuclear fuel cycle — uranium mining.

Fast neutron reactors are typically fuelled using a mixture of oxides of uranium and plutonium, and can vastly increase the efficiency of the nuclear fuel cycle by using the uranium - 238 recovered from recycling nuclear fuel after use in conventional nuclear power reactors.

Human civilization can flourish for centuries and millennia on energy delivered from a closed uranium or thorium fuel cycle, or from hydrogen - deuterium fusion.

I * am * concerned about the astronomical cost, the decades long construction cycles, the massive cost overruns, the near 100 % dependence on government subsidies, the absolutely unacceptable practice of Toshiba and Areva declaring cost projections «proprietary», and in the United States, our near total dependence on foreign sources of uranium fuel.

Back in February 2015, I posted on BNC about the announcement of a Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (henceforth NFCRC) in the uranium - mining state of South Australia (SA).

Mike, should uranium supply for a once - through fuel cycle become an issue then fuel recycling and fast spectrum reactors would surely be adopted.

Our lawyers are versed in US and international requirements covering new plants, power plant projects and transactions, plant regulation, nuclear liability issues, and all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining, enrichment, fabrication, and transport to nuclear waste management, decommissioning, and disposal.