Sentences with phrase «fuel recycling»

«(A) complete the development and testing of a complete and integrated process flowsheet for all steps involved in an advanced fuel recycling process;

But it offers no viable solutions to the raft of problems plaguing nuclear power, such as the erosion of public trust in this energy source in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, difficulties over the disposal of radioactive waste and the problem - plagued nuclear fuel recycling program.

And Areva, which handles used nuclear fuel recycling for France, is in discussions to help with China's own plans in that regard, including the possibility of building a reprocessing plant in the Gobi Desert in Gansu Province.

Orano is focused on nuclear materials development and waste management and its activities encompass uranium mining, conversion and enrichment, used fuel recycling, nuclear logistics, decommissioning and engineering.

And Japan's Monju fast - breeder reactor — which would allow both full fuel recycling and use for power generation — has been closed for years due to fires and technical glitches, including a refueling machine stuck in the reactor vessel that has shut the experimental reactor down.

Such nuclear fuel recycling involves taking used nuclear fuel rods, separating out plutonium and other fission by - products, and then combining the result with fresh uranium to produce usable fuel — known as mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.

Improved separations would enable a closed nuclear fuel recycling option — a tantalizing prospect considering the United States uses only 1 percent of the potential nuclear energy of the uranium that it mines and currently does not recycle nuclear fuel.

The future of nuclear fuels seems quite likely to be focussed on fuel recycling and re-fabrication rather than mining and geological storage.

Let alone the decision by Jerry Ford in the US to prevent fuel recycling (to prevent proliferation) by developing a waste repository (Yucca Mountain) that Obumer canceled.

But it offers no viable solutions to the raft of problems plaguing nuclear power, such as the erosion of public trust in this energy source in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, difficulties over the disposal of radioactive waste and the problem - plagued nuclear fuel recycling program.

As part of its nuclear fuel recycling program, Japan has been pushing its pluthermal plan that involves mixing plutonium with uranium to produce plutonium - uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.

In 1991 a fuel recycling plant was attached to the reactor which retrieves uranium, plutonium and other actinides from reactor waste and recycles them as new fuel.

Essentially all nuclear fuel recycling is performed using a process known as PUREX (plutonium uranium extraction), which was initially developed for extracting pure plutonium for nuclear weapons.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Researchers are investigating a new material that might help in nuclear fuel recycling and waste reduction by capturing certain gases released during reprocessing.

Armed with these new computational and experimental insights, the researchers can explore SBMOF - 1 and other MOFs further for nuclear fuel recycling.

Researchers are investigating a new material that might help in nuclear fuel recycling and waste reduction by capturing certain gases released during reprocessing.

At ORNL, Moyer developed new understanding of the interfacial aspects of solvent extraction in recovery of uranium and conducted groundbreaking work on principles of molecular recognition that can be applied to solving DOE's pressing challenges in nuclear waste cleanup, nuclear fuel recycle, and recovery of critical materials.

The waste produced after five years of operation is approximately the size of a softball and is a good candidate for fuel recycling.