Sentences with phrase «mixed oxide fuel»

Also advising on commercial agreements between domestic and international customers relating to the storage, handling, reprocessing and transport of nuclear waste and the supply of mixed oxide fuel to the nuclear industry.

Mr. Matthews has represented clients in NRC hearings regarding the licensing of the South Texas Project, Units 3 & 4, the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, numerous contested license transfer proceedings, license amendment proceedings, and contested import / export license proceedings.

Small portions of Pu - 239 can be added to newly - manufactured nuclear fuel to produce MOX fuel or mixed oxide fuel, which contains a combination of plutonium oxide and uranium oxide.

The uranium and plutonium are used to fabricate mixed oxide fuel for use in light - water reactors.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

Graham was upset because the Obama administration's 2014 budget request called for a study of alternatives to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, under construction at DOE's Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina.

That includes $ 340 million for construction of South Carolina's Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, a perennial source of tension between Congress and the executive branch (Greenwire, June 27).

The fuel is known as MOX, for mixed oxide fuel.

«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.

Not exact matches

Plutonium and uranium are converted into chemical compounds called oxides, and mixed together in fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants.

The shape of the crystals, together with their increased reactivity, enables the consolidation of homogeneous nanostructured mixed oxides as intermediates towards very dense nuclear fuels for advanced reactors.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

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.

The unit houses MOX (mixed oxide) fuel, which can melt at lower temperatures and could release some of its plutonium, which has a half - life of 24,000 years.

Such «mixed oxide» fuel has not proved popular in the broader nuclear reactor fleet, although France continues to pursue it, with the U.S. soon to follow.

Rather than the pellets of uranium oxide used in other fast reactors and conventional reactors as fuel, GE would fabricate metal alloy fuels, with the plutonium or uranium mixed with zirconium metal.

Moniz was pushed a bit by Senator Tim Scott (R - SC) on the future of the problem - plagued mixed oxide plutonium fuel plant under construction at the department's Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

To implement the PMDA, the United States has been building a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility to convert the plutonium into nuclear reactor fuel.

This includes $ 340 million in funding to help fulfill the international commitment by the U.S. to construct the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility to dispose of surplus plutonium.

This includes working with and developing alternate fuels like recycled uranium, mixed oxide and thorium, as well as Tier 1 contracts for the management and decommissioning of nuclear sites in the United States and Canada.

An additional benefit is that PRISM's solution turns plutonium into low carbon electricity, eliminating the commercial risks of finding willing buyers of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel on the commercial market.

The January 1997 Record of Decision stated that surplus plutonium would either be immobilized or used as fuel (Mixed - Oxide or MOX) in commercial power plants and the waste would all be disposed in a Nuclear Waste Policy Act repository.

The study evaluated scenarios with partial and full - core loading of mixed uranium - plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel and confirmed that MOX could be used in the NuScale core with minimal effect on the reactor's design and operation.

Of its investment in Orano, JNFL said: «We believe that we can further strengthen our cooperative relationship with Orano which has excellent technical capabilities related to reprocessing and mixed - oxide (MOX) fuel processing and know - how cultivated through years of safe and stable operation.

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.

The air - fuel mix is consequently optimized and this reduces fuel consumption, while also minimizing the emission of CO2 and other pollutants (nitrogen oxides and particulates) at all engine speeds.

The mixed oxide that consists of a blend of two known catalysts, zinc oxide and zirconium oxide, was actually developed to produce hydrogen fuel from ethanol.

Fast reactors feature in Russia's long - term nuclear energy plans, which envisage a move to inherently safe nuclear plants using fast reactors with a closed fuel cycle and mixed - oxide (MOX) fuel.

Better air quality: If the same amount of electricity as that generated by America's 10,000 - MW wind turbine fleet were instead produced using the average utility fuel mix, it would emit 73,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 27,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year, as well as other pollutants such as mercury.

However, this unit will use a MOX fuel composed of a mix of uranium and plutonium oxides.

An ISO New England study found that as the fuel mix shifted toward natural gas, regional emissions dropped 91 percent for sulfur dioxide and 56 percent for nitrogen oxide (as well as 22 percent for carbon dioxide) between 2006 and 2015.