Sentences with phrase «concentrates of uranium»
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This concentrated atomic assault allows the reactor to extract 100 times as much energy from uranium fuel as do current thermal reactors, which use less than 1 percent of the fuel's potential energy.
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For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
More troublesome, according to some experts, is the rapid decline of highly concentrated uranium deposits.
This plant covers 74 acres and sucks up at least 300 megawatts of electricity most of the time, peaking at as much as 2,000 megawatts (much of it from a coal - fired power plant nearby), to heat uranium hexafluoride until it gasifies and then force it through 1,760 porous membranes that gradually concentrate the level of the fissile isotope — a method invented during World War II.
Jasim Ahmed, head of the IAEA radiation safety section, says the mission will concentrate on three issues: workers» health, the monitoring of their exposure to radiation, and management of the mine's radioactive «tailings», a mixture of uranium ore and processing liquids.
Experimental support is lacking for the claim that all this happened in a distant stellar explosion billions of years ago and somehow uranium was concentrated in relatively tiny ore bodies on earth.]
The helium is produced from radioactive decay of the concentrated Uranium and Thorium that drops out at specific pressures.
«(AP) The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two - week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.