Sentences with phrase «fissile uranium fuel»

In addition, nuclear engineers have uncovered ways to coax more heat out of fissile uranium fuel before it inevitably fizzles out.

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Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

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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...

Reactors around the world require their fuel to hold anywhere from 3 to 5 percent U235, or 30 to 50 atoms of the fissile isotope per 1,000 atoms of uranium.

Nuclear fuel Areva has also signed a contract to supply Chinese nuclear operating companies, including China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC) and CNNC, with uranium fuel — 20,000 tons of the fissile material between now and 2020 for $ 3.5 billion.