Sentences with phrase «grade nuclear material»

He has developed a process to detect weapons - grade nuclear material and chemical - warfare agents in shipping containers, a project that has interested the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Add to this the fact that an increase in nuclear reactors will lead to a depletion of uranium stocks within a century - unless you factor in «breeder reactors» that have so far been shunned as they can produce weapons - grade nuclear materials - and nuclear ambitions start to look decidedly shaky.

Not exact matches

Commercial nuclear fuel cycles are generally the most costly and difficult route for production of weapons - grade materials.

Since the end of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Russia have been engaged in a nuclear non-proliferation effort designed to reduce the world's supply of HEU by diluting, or «blending down,» the weapons grade material into reactor grade material, sometimes called «turning megatons into megawatts.»

Through a multi-step process in Russia, the bomb - grade uranium material was converted into a different chemical form and then diluted into low enriched uranium suitable for use in fabricating commercial nuclear power reactor fuel.

As of December 2013, the program has been completed: 500 metric tons of bomb - grade highly enriched uranium have been recycled into more than 14,000 metric tons of low enriched uranium — permanently eliminating enough bomb - grade material for 20,000 nuclear warheads.

This test was conducted to obtain nuclear design information concerning the feasibility of using reactor - grade plutonium as the nuclear explosive material.

Energy Probe has also been successful in stopping the export of Canada's Candu nuclear reactors, most of which have been sought by states with nuclear weapons aspirations — the Candu design lends itself to surreptitious diversion of spent fuel suitable for reprocessing into weapons grade material.

It's extremely difficult and costly to make weapons grade material from the used fuel from modern civilian nuclear power plants.

What happened in the fifties and sixties is that instead of pursuing a cheap safe nuclear option we chose to pursue dirty inefficient light water reactors because the uranium fuel cycle produces bomb grade materials

The removal of 550 metric tons of «yellowcake» — the seed material for higher - grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy.

And the fact that private companies should not be disposing of this kind of material without serious government regulations (Mother Jones reports that the licenses for WSC «don't need detailed approval from federal nuclear regulators because the dump wouldn't handle the highest grades of radioactive waste») is only part of the issue.