Sentences with phrase «depleted uranium»

It is a 4th generation reactor design that uses depleted uranium.

I insisted that we would have to make an exception for depleted uranium.

Military doctors first became concerned about embedded shrapnel following the Gulf War in the early 1990s, when they suspected that depleted uranium from tank munitions was causing kidney damage.

Radiation may also have led to a high incidence of cancer in those who witnessed early nuclear tests or have been in contact with depleted uranium munitions, though a recent study contests this risk.

«Clean Coal» is NOT even remotely clean (see: mercury, acid rain, or strip - mining), and if you think nuclear power is clean: just look around at the effects of nuclear radiation, and birth defects in Iraq and Afghanistan (INCLUDING American soldiers and war veterans) from using depleted uranium munitions.

The company pointed out that its own mPower reactor is based on pressurized water reactor technology using standard enriched uranium as fuel, whereas TerraPower's TWR «is a larger reactor based on Generation IV technology and designed to use depleted uranium as fuel.»

«There is depleted uranium in a lot of armor - piercing munitions,» he said, «so places like the Middle East that are experiencing war could be exposed to high levels of uranium in the groundwater.»

COULD the mystery over how depleted uranium might cause genetic damage be closer to being solved?

The SFR can also burn spent nuclear rods from other reactors and depleted uranium left over from the uranium - enrichment process, putting a serious dent in the nuclear waste problem.

This, they argue, could explain how residues of depleted uranium scattered across former war zones could be increasing the risk of cancers and other problems among soldiers and local people.

Depleted uranium metal can be used as shielding, for example.

The facilities convert DUF6 to depleted uranium oxide for possible future reuse, storage or disposal.

When FBRs are used in «breeder» mode, plutonium is produced in a blanket of depleted uranium around the core.

Heavy metals and toxic chemicals like depleted uranium and Agent Orange were used during these tests, with the result that residents of the island report the highest cancer rates in the Caribbean.

He is experienced effectively dealing with the media to his clients» advantage, having defended in such high profile cases as the Westboro Baptist Church's trial (that proceeded to a Supreme Court victory on First Amendment grounds); radical peace activists in the Plowshares depleted uranium case (teaming up with Lyndon Johnson's last attorney general Ramsey Clark to defend famous peace activist Philip Berrigan and co-defendants).

Summary of Professional Experience: Twenty three (23) year's engineering and project management experience in the utility industry (Nuclear BWR & PWR designed power plants and Coal - Fired plants), DOE Depleted Uranium Processing Facilities & Manufacturing.

America can invade Iraq and kill Iraqis with impunity, whilst salting their environment with Depleted Uranium (DU) which has already resulted in genetic mutation and the disfigurement of the offsprings of those affected by DU, can now have the gall to protest the imminent execution of an Iranian national in Iran?

This radioactive metal is sometimes used in the production of nuclear weapons as a substitute for depleted Uranium.

the manufacture or transfer of indiscriminate weapons, e.g. cluster bombs and depleted uranium munitions

Because it uses depleted uranium.

If I played the same game as you and took the number of Muslims killed by American ammunition, bombs, cluster bombs, missiles, sanctions, depleted uranium, etc., etc. and divided that into numbered points featuring the victims in groups of 50, 60, or 100, I'd be giving you a MUCH longer list of Muslim victims of America than the list of victims of Islamic terrorism that you provided to us here.

And depleted uranium has been known to show people god, by blasting them to kingdom - come...

We could worry about a likeness or similarity in a dramatic production or we could actually worry about the depleted uranium they could use in a dirty bomb that is spread all over Iraq.

Researchers discovered that increased exposure to depleted uranium, mercury and lead from bullets had caused a «staggering rise» of deformities in the city.

If a break - even mode were chosen, the only additional fuel a nuclear plant would need would be a periodic infusion of depleted uranium (uranium from which most of the fissile uranium 235 has been removed) to replace the heavy - metal atoms that have undergone fission.

Depleted uranium, or DU, is a radioactive heavy metal.

One metric ton of yellowcake becomes roughly 255 pounds (115 kilograms) of uranium hexafluoride enriched to contain as much as 5 percent U235, suitable for fuel; the remaining 2,500 pounds (1,135 kilograms) of depleted uranium is waste, according to David McIntyre, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the federal agency with oversight of the nuclear power industry.

We said that if we need some depleted uranium, we may ask for it from [the P5 +1] during this period.

From 12 August, British Nuclear Fuels is allowed to test the performance of its thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield using uranium and uranium compounds «derived from natural or depleted uranium».

Iran would have two basic options for achieving that reduction: exporting the excess LEU or blending it with depleted uranium, which, compared with natural uranium, has less of the fissile isotope uranium - 235.

Soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of depleted uranium (DU) on the battlefield could suffer kidney failure within days, according to a new report from the one of the UK's premier scientific bodies, the Royal Society.

Chemical defoliants, polluted water supplies, even the depleted uranium from modern armor - piercing bullets leaching into the land.

It is relatively easy to separate this plutonium, because the depleted uranium blanket is less contaminated with highly radioactive fission products than regular spent fuel.

Also known as depleted uranium.

[In our country, we've got about 700k tons of depleted uranium.]»

«Now these fast reactors — they can use all that depleted uranium for fuel.

Aside from the hammerhead — a nifty little thing that shoots nails made of depleted uranium — it's all pretty standard.