Sentences with phrase «fuel reprocessing»

Radioactive iodine and krypton control for nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities.

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The damning report into falsifying safety at Sellafield is another nail in the coffin of nuclear fuel reprocessing in Britain

Although Japan has scant prospects for moving ahead with the pluthermal program, it has not abandoned plans to start up its own spent fuel reprocessing facility.

Fast neutrons have a much higher cross section for the transuranics with intermediate half - lives which cause so much trouble in waste, permitting them to be destroyed in a combined - cycle plant with fuel reprocessing.

pdf), «Adversary Proceedings and Nuclear Policy: The Windscale Inquiry of 1977,» focused on an inquiry conducted in the United Kingdom to debate the merits of plans to build a nuclear - fuels reprocessing plant.

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.

«There just isn't enough public support for nuclear fuel reprocessing research or fast - breeder reactors to make continuing in those areas defensible,» he said.

The Bush administration's plan to use fuel reprocessing as the spark to revive nuclear power will not succeed.

An IFR mainly involves some innovation in onsite fuel reprocessing and it's not really that exceptional.

The letter also urged the U.S. government to ask China and South Korea to review their own plans to one day construct a spent fuel reprocessing facility.

Pro-nuclear groups argue that the waste problem can be safely managed with fuel reprocessing and by burying it underground.

The WSU project is focused on developing chemical separations needed to institute nuclear fuel reprocessing in the United States.

PoliticsHome speaks to former Labour MP Jamie Reed about his new role as Head of Development & Community Relations at Sellafield Ltd, the nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site in Cumbria.

A huge advantage of carrying out nuclear - related research at Manchester is the university's proximity to Calder Hall and Sellafield — a nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site, and home to the United Kingdom's National Nuclear Laboratory Central Laboratory.

Thus it remains intact, disarming concerns about long - term spent fuel storage or the theft of nuclear material during refueling or fuel reprocessing, the company said.

Although the researchers showed that SBMOF - 1 is a good candidate for nuclear fuel reprocessing, getting these results wasn't smooth sailing.

But the uranium number also depends on use of breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing to make use of the full energy content of the U-238, as well as the initial U-235 that supplies energy the first time through.

Fuel reprocessing can extract the worst isotopes and send them back into the fuel cycle to have their energy actually do some good.

The federal government has always anticipated a long - term solution through either a central storage site or fuel reprocessing.