Sentences with phrase «fuel cycle»

Because of continuing interest in advancing the sustainability and economics of nuclear fuel cycles, several countries are developing more effective recycling technologies.

A type of reactor based on a closed fuel cycle at the site.

So far as I can discover, this technology has got no further than a prototype; the full fuel cycle has never been tested.

New fuel cycles must continue to be designed to guard against proliferation.

The plant is now due to close at the end of the current fuel cycle and has been generating electricity since 1975.

A well - designed international fuel cycle could create many carrots.

There is no shortage of good ideas for creating a better - controlled global fuel cycle based on minimizing the number of fuel - handling points.

Modern materials science and nuclear fuel cycles brings decades old nuclear technology into the 21st century.

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

When various energy sources are assessed according to their environmental impacts, the entire fuel cycle must be considered.

R&D related to advanced reactor technology and fuel cycle sustainability, efficiency, and safety would be scaled back and shifted to earlier - stage technology.

Western aid should focus on making the nuclear fuel cycle safe and secure and not on making some fast money.

But for those of us who have been on the front and back end of the nuclear fuel cycle know that this isn't the answer.

A novelty in the present study is that the analyses are carried out in a consistent manner using reactor and fuel cycle parameters which have been agreed upon by international experts.

The essential differences between the various systems are evaluated with the help of a number of representative «fuel cycle schemes».

He has produced many studies and articles on nuclear fuel cycle related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste, over the past twenty years.

Fuel cycle All the steps involved in using nuclear fuel in reactors: supply, use, processing and disposal of waste.

This session is key in learning to access and expand the emotional vulnerability that have typically fueled cycles of conflict and distance.

New fuel cycles and reactor technologies addressing some of these issues are being investigated and progress in research and development has been made concerning safety and waste disposal.

The problem needs urgent attention because it will take a generation to build a credible international fuel cycle.

DMS s.r.o. performs transport and carriage of dangerous objects of class 7 (radioactive substances), provides specialised services in the field of nuclear fuel cycle in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Fast neutron reactors are typically fuelled using a mixture of oxides of uranium and plutonium, and can vastly increase the efficiency of the nuclear fuel cycle by using the uranium - 238 recovered from recycling nuclear fuel after use in conventional nuclear power reactors.

U.S. reprocessing would undermine the U.S. goal of halting the spread of fuel cycle technologies that are permitted under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but can be used to make nuclear weapons materials.

Eventually, the pressures exerted on Iran did not achieve its aim, Iran was determined to do fuel cycle work.

«For the next several decades in the U.S. the once - through fuel cycle using light - water reactors is the preferred option,» said M.I.T. physicist and report co-chair Ernest Moniz at its release on September 16 in Washington, D.C. «Light - water reactors are the workhorse, and there's a lot we can do to improve [them].»

CANYON, Texas — Two WSU graduate students have won awards in the U.S. Department of Energy's Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards competition.

GNF Americas chief operator officer, Amir Vexler, said the new fuel had been designed to deliver more power while reducing overall fuel cycle costs.

While nuclear reactors and atomic bombs are very different machines (and a reactor can never explode like a bomb), there is some technology overlap, especially in fuel cycle facilities like enrichment and reprocessing plants.

A fundamental assumption of the report is that current supplies of uranium are more than adequate to meet the needs of an expanding nuclear power sector, and therefore the United States should not accelerate development of reactor fuel reprocessing until extensive additional research has been done to identify the best fuel cycle technologies and strategies.

First Energy spokesperson Jennifer Young told World Nuclear News that the reassessment of operating safety margins is routinely carried out for every new fuel cycle as part of normal practice, regardless of the type of fuel.

Currently these are not significant problems in domestic fuel cycle activities, but they are a serious problem at the global level, particularly in developing nations with nuclear programs (e.g., our serious security concerns with the domestic nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan).

What is needed is for the haves to spend less time talking to each other and begin more serious discussions with the have - nots on what a new internationalized fuel cycle should be.

There is almost no work going on in the United Kingdom on future alternative reactor designs, such as Generation IV reactors and small modular reactors and their associated fuel cycles, so Beddington's ad hoc board says the government should actively foster research in these areas.

A recently released total fuel cycle analysis for maritime case studies shows that natural gas fuels reduce some air quality pollutants substantially, and reduce major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions slightly, when compared to conventional petroleum - based marine fuels (low - sulfur and high - sulfur).

Moniz; Mujid Kazimi, director of the MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems; and Charles Forsberg, executive director of the MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study, led a panel discussion of the report yesterday.

The biofuel industry is built around the idea that turning plants into ethanol creates a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.

According to Global Nuclear Fuels, the GNF2 design delivers higher energy output whilst cutting overall fuel cycle costs, reducing the total amount of uranium and the average enrichment in fuel reloads.

A recently released total fuel cycle analysis for maritime case studies shows that natural gas fuels reduce some air quality pollutants substantially, and reduce major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions slightly, when compared to conventional petroleum - based marine fuels (low - sulfur and high - sulfur).

Chemistry professor Kenneth Czerwinski, center, works with students during Radiochemistry Fuel Cycle Summer School.

The core issue is to ensure a secure fuel supply to those agreeing to forego their own fuel cycle development.

The new Dualjet engine emits 84g / km of CO2 and attains 78.4 mpg on the EC Combined fuel cycle making it the most fuel efficient new car on sale for less than # 10,000.

* Introducing multinational management of the non-military nuclear energy fuel cycle with strict standards for safety, security, and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, including stopping reprocessing for plutonium separation

I'm still on holiday, though I briefly appeared before the South Australian Royal Commission on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle yesterday.

Barriers have been erected around areas near a reactor and other fuel cycle areas to prevent workers being exposed to «light or moderate» contamination.