Sentences with phrase «civilian nuclear power plants»

My point is that any country that wants nuclear weapons will not use civilian nuclear power plants, nor use the spent fuel from them.

It's extremely difficult and costly to make weapons grade material from the used fuel from modern civilian nuclear power plants.

Plutonium and uranium are converted into chemical compounds called oxides, and mixed together in fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants.

Not exact matches

To use MOX fuel rods, civilian power plants would have to modify their reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

When nations acquire nuclear weapons, they usually develop dedicated facilities to produce fissile materials rather than collecting nuclear materials from civilian power plants.

There have been more civilian casualties in the back of Ted Kennedy's car than there have from radioactivity in US nuclear power plant accidents.