Sentences with phrase «make reactor fuel»

Opportunities exist for the diversion of weapons - usable material at the front end of the fuel cycle, during which natural uranium is enriched to make reactor fuel.

Not exact matches

Exelon made the offer because it can use the fuel at one of its 23 reactors if Entergy declines it, Exelon officials said.

During the discussions about the proposed fuel bridge, Entergy officials thought Exelon might make an offer to buy the plant, which sits next to Exelon's two reactors at Nine Mile Point.

Scientists are also investigating the possibility of using high - temperature nuclear reactors to make hydrogen for fuel cells.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Transfers of casks from operating reactors could follow, and the report authors said that would help resolve a long - running court dispute over payments nuclear plant operators are required to make to the federal government in return for federal storage of the spent fuel — a bargain the federal government has not kept.

Because the world's uranium supply is finite and the continued growth in the numbers of thermal reactors could exhaust the available low - cost uranium reserves in a few decades, it makes little sense to discard this spent fuel or the «tailings» left over from the enrichment process.

Appropriators in the Senate, meanwhile, endorsed plans for a center dedicated to the modeling and simulation of nuclear reactors, and gave qualified support to two more: A hub to make fuels directly from sunlight and another on energy - efficient buildings.

Moreover, the authors suggest that states that provide subsidies to uneconomical nuclear reactors within their borders could also play a constructive role by making those subsidies available only for plants that agreed to carry out expedited transfer of spent fuel.

Our 29 June edition suggested using a chemical reactor on Mars to make fuel from hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Newly approved reactor designs could reduce global warming and fossil - fuel dependence, but utilities are grappling with whether better nukes make market sense

Iran has said it will downsize the calandria — the vessel in which a core resides — making it harder to later reconfigure the reactor to switch back to natural uranium fuel and produce more plutonium.

Under the law, in fact, the United States can intervene in the management of any fuel burned in a U.S. - made reactor.

One unheralded aspect of the Fukushima crisis is the fact that some of the fuel burned at the Daiichi reactors is made by U.S. companies.

Under the 1978 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act (NNPA), the United States has some control over the disposition of U.S. - made fuel after it is burned in reactors in foreign countries.

«We're going to take plutonium oxide that's a powder, turn it into fuel form, put it in the reactor, make it more radioactive, and then put that into the ground,» Loewen admits, which would also render it unfit for nuclear weapons.

That compatibility with metals is also why GE has chosen to make an alternative nuclear fuel as well, as part of its «Advanced Recycling Center» concept that includes PRISM reactors.

(Fuel in reactor # 5 at Fukushima Daiichi was made in the United States.)

«If I was going to try to get rid of 100 tons of plutonium, I'd burn it in a light - water reactor,» Cochran says, by making it into the mixed oxide fuels.

These reactors therefore «breed» plutonium, which can be used to make more fuel or nuclear weapons.

It also fuelled a fierce debate: should Soviet - designed reactors be shut down or could they be made «safe»?

Since he still doesn't know what fuel would make it run, it's still not very interesting, other than the fact that he's put a lot of evident work into figuring out some of the basic properties of the reactor despite not having any clue how its core would actually work.

Adjustments are periodically made based on how the newer and older fuel is distributed in the reactor core.

HI - STAR 60's loaded weight is approximately 60 tons which makes it the only cask for light water reactor fuel shippable by truck in Holtec's fleet at this time.

The variable pitch of the reactor and ease of access to the core, along with the reactor's associated counting facilities, make ZED - 2 an ideal tool for performing reactor physics measurements and fuel studies.

Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) has made its next - generation GNF3 boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel assembly available to customers for the first tFuel (GNF) has made its next - generation GNF3 boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel assembly available to customers for the first tfuel assembly available to customers for the first time.

Uranium mined from the earth contains only 0.7 percent (seven - tenths of 1 percent) U-235, the isotope used to fuel nuclear reactors and make bombs.

«Highly enriched uranium» (HEU) is made for use in nuclear weapons and is created when the content of uranium - 235 (U-235), the isotope of uranium that is fissionable and therefore necessary to make nuclear weapons and nuclear reactor fuel, is enriched.

Other «secondary sources» of uranium include uranium previously processed to make nuclear weapons cores or reactor fuel, but never consumed.

It could also make use of other materials the UK Government wishes to disposition including reprocessed uranium and unused fuel from past nuclear reactor programs.

To make the reactor self - sufficient in case of any leakage, including a break in the main circulation pump, it is possible to use additionally the water from the spent fuel storage pool for at least 72 hrs (an extra inventory of about 800 m3).

Szilard had many ideas about the reactor design, and it was at this time that he actually thought up a name to the «nuclear breeder reactor,» which is supposed to make more fuel than it consumes by bombarding uranium - 238, which does not fission, turning it into plutonium - 239, which does fission.

Find out how the uranium fuel that powers the world's nuclear reactors is mined and processed in several important steps that make up the nuclear fuel cycle.

«New reactor designs could make nuclear meltdowns physically impossible, and nanoengineered membranes could block carbon emissions in fossil - fueled power plants.

Who has made weapons material from used fuel from modern civilian reactors?

Carbon capture is already being used, but it is not necessary because super-ultra safe CANDU reactors can generate the electricity now being produced by coal, and the coal is then used to make fuel.

International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen and to run day or night — because it uses concentrated solar power (CSP) and includes thermal energy storage.

On top of that at least some of the current nuclear waste we have could be used as fuel for these reactors, this making our current waste problem less of an issue.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor to create syngas.

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.

Molten salt reactors run at much higher temperatures than conventional solid - fuel reactors, which makes them more efficient.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor -LSB-...]

Alternatively, we can make solar jet fuel, by splitting both H2O and CO2 in a solar reactor.

IFR was a sodium - cooled fast reactor with inherently - safe fuel rods made of «spent» fuel (article by Dr. Till).

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-China-plans-for-nuclear-growth-2011144.html Fast reactors — make maximum use of uranium resources by generating a certain amount more fuel than they consume — are seen as the main technology for China's long - term use of nuclear energy.

In a deuterium - moderated - reactor, fuel made from natural uranium (0.71U - 235) can sustain a chain reaction.

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.

France could buy used fuel rods from the US power reactors for less than nothing, and just remove the fission products to make a fuel that has far more energy than the fuel normaly used by the Canadians.

Remember that Israel used pirated fissionables and spent fuel to fuel their breeder reactor to make Pu239 to make bombs.