Sentences with phrase «enriched uranium fuel»

(The DOE also is apparently considering a different fast reactor design that would use high - assay, low - enriched uranium fuel, but this material is in short supply and a new production source would have to be established.

Centrus has signed several new sales contracts in the last three months to supply its utility customers with low - enriched uranium fuel.

Centrus Energy is a diversified supplier of enriched uranium fuel for civilian nuclear power reactors.

Centrus Energy is a trusted supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants in the United States and around the world.

Centrus Energy is the world's most diversified supplier of enriched uranium fuel for civilian nuclear power reactors.

Centrus Energy Corp. is a trusted supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants in the United States and around the world.

The United States» role as the assured supplier of enriched uranium fuel has steadily declined since the late 1970s.

In 2009, when the reactor was running low on fuel, negotiations broke down over Iran's request to purchase low - enriched uranium fuel plates.

However, when asked to comment, one CEO said Canada is in a strong position because Candu reactors use heavy water instead of boiled or pressurized water, which allows the reactor to run on natural uranium instead of enriched uranium fuel.

The M.I.T. report argues that a leasing program, in which countries with the capability to enrich uranium fuel supply it to other countries and then take back the spent fuel for disposal in one form or another at the end of its useful life.

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Centrus Energy Corp., a global energy company that enriches uranium for nuclear fuel.

Reports suggest it could see the international community provide Tehran with a foreign supply of atomic fuel, so it need not enrich uranium itself, with a package of sanctions such as visa bans if it did not comply.

One initiative that is slow off the mark is the transformation of the underground Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which housed about 2700 centrifuges for enriching uranium, into an international physics center.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

Most nuclear reactors use uranium fuel that has been «enriched» in uranium 235, an isotope of uranium that fissions readily.

The nearly completed reactor was designed to use highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel.

Enriched uranium is manufactured into fuel rods that are encased in metal cladding made of alloys such as zirconium.

It turns this into enriched uranium, to be re-used in fuel, earning between $ 20 and $ 30 million per year.

They say enriching uranium at a processing plant poses less risk than handling spent nuclear fuel, which is highly radioactive, at a reactor.

Even though the plants begin with fuel that has had its uranium 235 content enriched, most of that easily fissioned uranium is gone after about three years.

Earl Lane / AAAS There is enough highly enriched uranium on hand to fuel non-weapon uses of the fissile material for a century, a nonproliferation...

The U.S. should aggressively explore the offer made by Iran's president Mahmoud Ah madinejad last fall to end all enrichment beyond low - enriched uranium in exchange for the purchase of fuel for its Tehran Research Reactor.

And by 2070, Storm van Leeuwen found, the amount of energy it takes to mine, mill, enrich and fabricate one metric ton of uranium fuel may be larger than 160 terajoules — the amount of energy one can generate from it.

With 436 reactors worldwide consuming 65,000 metric tons (one metric ton equals 1.1 U.S. tons) of enriched uranium per year, demand for this nuclear reactor fuel outstrips available supply, which has caused uranium prices to jump from a low of $ 10 per pound a few years ago to more than $ 130 per pound in 2007 and still more than $ 50 per pound today.

Nuclear fuel rods are made of hundreds of small pellets of enriched uranium placed end - to - end inside hollow tubes of zircaloy that are about a half - inch across.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

Standard reactor design helps fuel a boom After testing their first nuclear weapon in 1960, the French turned their infrastructure for enriching and processing uranium toward energy.

PHWRs are similar to PWRs, but use raw uranium rather than enriched uranium oxide as fuel, and deploy heavy water — in which hydrogen is replaced by deuterium — as both moderator and coolant.

Light water - cooled graphite - moderated reactors Fuelled by low - enriched uranium oxide, these reactors use graphite as a moderator and water to cool the core.

WATCHMAN can indicate whether a reactor is active and where it is but not the precise mix of fuel, such as highly enriched plutonium and uranium.

The fuel is enriched uranium oxide, and water is used both as a coolant and as a moderator.

The world's first commercial - size fast reactor, the BN - 600 near Ekaterinburg in the central Urals, began operating in 1980 on a fuel of enriched uranium.

The product cylinders are then loaded into sturdy protective containers for shipment to a nuclear fuel fabricator where the enriched uranium is converted into fuel assemblies for nuclear power reactors.

There are more than 440 operating nuclear power reactors worldwide, most of which use enriched uranium for fuel, including 99 reactors in the United States.

After conversion of the university reactor at Texas A&M to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuel, NAC provided one NAC - LWT cask for the transport of 84 irradiated High Enriched Uranium (HEU) TRIGA type fuel assemblies to the DOE site of Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

«Highly enriched uranium» (HEU) is made for use in nuclear weapons and is created when the content of uranium - 235 (U-235), the isotope of uranium that is fissionable and therefore necessary to make nuclear weapons and nuclear reactor fuel, is enriched.

To produce this fuel, companies enrich the concentration of U235 in natural uranium hexafluoride (UF6) to the appropriate level and sell the fuel to utility customers.

For two decades, up to 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States was generated by fuel fabricated using low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

Further processing and enriching of the uranium produces a material to fuel nuclear power plants.

Virtually the entire U.S. nuclear reactor fleet participated in this program by using fuel fabricated with low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

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.

Through a multi-step process in Russia, the bomb - grade uranium material was converted into a different chemical form and then diluted into low enriched uranium suitable for use in fabricating commercial nuclear power reactor fuel.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

We used to reprocess spent fuel rods until 1/2 ton of enriched uranium somehow wound up in Israel.

There would still need to be fuel but that would probably be highly enriched uranium or plutonium.

There are many nuclear fuel options: thorium, unenriched uranium (e.g. in heavy water reactors), enriched uranium in many different types of reactors, depleted uranium, «spent fuel» / used fuel» / «nuclear waste».

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.

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

Unfortunately, any country that can enrich natural uranium to 2 to 3 percent (the concentration needed to fuel a power plant) can easily use those same machines to enrich the U-235 to 80 or 90 percent, the concentration needed for a nuclear bomb.

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