Sentences with phrase «natural uranium fuel»

But simply running the reactor on its natural uranium fuel would yield about 10 kilograms of plutonium a year, enough for one or two atomic bombs.

LEU fuel is more compact than natural uranium fuel and would thus take up less space in the core.

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.

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However, when asked to comment, one CEO said Canada is in a strong position because Candu reactors use heavy water instead of boiled or pressurized water, which allows the reactor to run on natural uranium instead of enriched uranium fuel.

The article, published recently in Open Chemistry may lead to the development of a process to remove uranium from wastewater at the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle, or even extracting natural uranium from sea water.

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The concentration of this isotope must therefore be boosted in natural uranium before it can function as nuclear power plant fuel.

In addition to trading greenhouse gases, Evolution helps broker deals for biofuels, natural gas, the uranium fuel for nuclear reactors, renewable energy credits, air pollution permits for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, even insurance against bad weather.

From 12 August, British Nuclear Fuels is allowed to test the performance of its thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield using uranium and uranium compounds «derived from natural or depleted uranium».

That's because the CANDU design uses heavy water, which enables the use of natural (i.e., unenriched) uranium as fuel.

Muons, Inc., a private - sector high - energy accelerator physics firm, and ADNA (Accelerator - Driven Neutron Applications) Corp., are proposing using spent nuclear fuel (SNF), natural uranium, or excess weapons - grade plutonium (W - Pu) in a proposed GEM * STAR accelerator - driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) to provide... Read more →

To produce this fuel, companies enrich the concentration of U235 in natural uranium hexafluoride (UF6) to the appropriate level and sell the fuel to utility customers.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

Enrichment is a critical step in transforming natural uranium into nuclear fuel to produce electricity.

Whether we have to deal with a GASPEC (for natural gas trade) or a UPEC (for Uranium) is anyone's guess, but we have been taught that we neither have all the world's fuels nor can remain economically and enviornmentally healthy at today's high rates of consumption, as the hole in the Gulf taught us.

Heavy water is an excellent moderator and thus permits the use of in expensive natural (unenriched) uranium as 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.

Unfortunately, any country that can enrich natural uranium to 2 to 3 percent (the concentration needed to fuel a power plant) can easily use those same machines to enrich the U-235 to 80 or 90 percent, the concentration needed for a nuclear bomb.

The TWR is a liquid sodium - cooled fast reactor that uses depleted or natural uranium as fuel.

There is NO evidence of «human induced greenhouse global warming» and there is NO evidence at all that NATURAL climate change is even being interfered with There is NOT even viable a «greenhouse effect» as the «theory» attempts to outline, instead the «greenhouse illusion» is only disguising the path to Uranium fueled generation.

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Meanwhile, numerous industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the extraction of coal, oil and gas, oil shale and tar sands, and liquefied natural gas development — as well as uranium mining and milling and the construction of energy corridors and long - distance electric transmission lines.

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

Muons, Inc., a private - sector high - energy accelerator physics firm, and ADNA (Accelerator - Driven Neutron Applications) Corp., are proposing using spent nuclear fuel (SNF), natural uranium, or excess weapons - grade plutonium (W - Pu) in a proposed GEM * STAR accelerator - driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) to provide... Read more →