Sentences with phrase «fuels for civilian use»

Not exact matches

Although the mixed oxide (MOX) method is currently being used for spoiling excess weapons plutonium so that it can not be employed in bombs — a good idea — we think that it would be a mistake to deploy the much larger PUREX infrastructure that would be required to process civilian fuel.

Its five reactors, which used to produce plutonium for bombs, have now been closed down, but Mayak still reprocesses spent fuel from civilian reactors.

And while civilian light water reactors do not require that kind of enrichment, new nuclear plants still start out with a huge carbon and energy debt to work off, which means it is years before they produce more energy than they consumed along the way (I have heard estimates exceeding 15 years when all the construction and fuel cycle energy use is accounted for).

For both soldiers and civilians, better batteries open up greater possibilities for using renewable energy to fuel our gadgets and other electroniFor both soldiers and civilians, better batteries open up greater possibilities for using renewable energy to fuel our gadgets and other electronifor using renewable energy to fuel our gadgets and other electronics.