Sentences with phrase «fission product waste»

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These pass into a «blanket» of heavy water, through which actinide waste or fission products circulate.

The annual waste output from a fast reactor with the same electrical capacity, in contrast, is a little more than a single ton of fission products, plus trace amounts of transuranics.

The fission products, which make up about 5 percent of the used fuel, are the true wastes — the ashes, if you will, of the fission fire.

Science answers: Spent fuel is more dangerous because it contains a mixture of fission products, some of which can be long - lived radioactive waste, and also plutonium which is highly toxic.

The idea remains that fast reactors, which get their name because the neutrons that initiate fission in the reactor are zipping about faster than those in a conventional reactor, could offer a speedy solution to cleaning some nasty nuclear waste, which fissions better with fast neutrons, while also providing electricity as a by - product.

Conventional nuclear waste contains 96.6 % uranium oxide, 3.4 % fission products and 1 % long lived actinides.

These are «fission products» and account for most of the heat and radioactivity in high - level waste.

Fission products — a small proportion of the waste — can be removed using a plasma mass filter after each burn cycle.

They can also be processed while the reactor is operating to scrub out the fission products that are the real nuclear waste.

Then second group of leftovers are the fission products (the actual waste of fission).

The fluoride salt thorium reactor can produce nuclear wastes that consist only of fission products, which quickly decay to stable elements - in fact some elements like xenon or rhodium represent valuable commercial products after a few months «cooling down».

Having waste that only consists of fission products means that the waste only needs to be stored for a few hundred years, not the thousands of years needed for «once - through» uranium waste.