"Nuclear fuel" refers to the material that is used to produce energy in a nuclear power plant. It usually consists of uranium or plutonium, which undergo a process called nuclear fission. During fission, the atoms split apart, releasing a large amount of energy. This energy is harnessed to generate electricity.
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Because of continuing interest in advancing the sustainability and economics
of nuclear fuel cycles, several countries are developing more effective recycling technologies.
He has produced many studies and articles on
nuclear fuel cycle related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste, over the past twenty years.
The agency was supposed to begin collecting
spent nuclear fuel rods in 1998 and remains responsible for storing them.
As some of you might know, we have been leading innovations in management of
used nuclear fuel for the past 26 years.
Fuel cycle All the steps involved in using
nuclear fuel in reactors: supply, use, processing and disposal of waste.
«The release of that steam is the way they're getting rid of energy» in order to keep cooling the damaged
nuclear fuel rods, he explains.
We have likewise been storing spent
nuclear fuel at our nuclear plant sites since the country began using nuclear energy.
Total
global nuclear fuel resources — for this high temperature, gas cooled, fast neutron design — are some 300 times global oil reserves.
This also enables us to develop new
nuclear fuel manufacturing and inspection equipment either on a standalone basis or else in collaboration with technology partners.
Thus,
nuclear fuels production, structural materials, separation techniques and waste management, all may benefit from an excellent knowledge in the nano - nuclear technology.
The most immediate lesson we need to learn, and we should implement this yesterday, is a serious look at the state of our on - site spent
nuclear fuel pools.
Worse, if the spent
nuclear fuel did melt down, it too might follow the same path down.
The federal government signed contracts with the electric utilities in the early 1980s that promised to take spent
nuclear fuel off their hands beginning in 1998.
To those who are actively involved in the industry, it supplies additional insights to assist in the improvement of
existing nuclear fuel programs and in the development of new ones.
He's pursuing an opportunity to work alongside scientists and security specialists at a national research lab, solving domestic issues of how to store and
transport nuclear fuel.
At this point, it was unclear exactly what the condition is of the melted
down nuclear fuel in Units 1, 2 and 3.
In that case, the spent
nuclear fuel likely would have begun melting down and there would have been few ways of restoring cooling water.
«That's one of the coolest aspects» of using the particles to detect weapons -
grade nuclear fuel.
Aside from being much more efficient (thus needing
less nuclear fuel and producing less waste) the waste they do produce has a much shorter half - life.
And elaborate, redundant cooling systems are needed to
prevent nuclear fuel from overheating, which can lead to a meltdown.
Nothing else comes close
except nuclear fuel, which is also solar in the sense that it was produced in dying stars.
In addition, some forms of
nuclear fuel or even clean coal technologies could be considered sustainable in some sense.
While government entities are still working on providing a final storage repository for
used nuclear fuel, there is already an interest in removing fuel from sites, especially from permanently shut down ones.
Commercial
nuclear fuel cycles are generally the most costly and difficult route for production of weapons - grade materials.
This includes the storage and transportation of used fuel and the recycling and reuse of
nuclear fuel in some countries.
Researchers are exploring technologies that enable safe, efficient, and reliable recycling
of nuclear fuel for use in the future.
The researchers discovered uranium
from nuclear fuel embedded in or associated with caesium - rich micro particles that were emitted from the plant's reactors during the meltdowns.
«There just isn't enough public support for
nuclear fuel reprocessing research or fast - breeder reactors to make continuing in those areas defensible,» he said.
Officials from
British Nuclear Fuels Limited have now visited the Mayak reprocessing plant, near Chelyabinsk in the Urals, which has been notorious for its contamination and leakiness they went for a review of the way that the plant accounts for its fissile materials, and to see if there are ways to improve matters.
Enrichment is a critical step in transforming natural uranium
into nuclear fuel to produce electricity.
A white dwarf is an extremely dense remnant of a star that can no longer
burn nuclear fuel at its core.
His eulogy of Dr Lovelock's recent book, «The Revenge of Gaia», in support of urgent reliance on
nuclear fuel as the solution to our energy needs may also require correction.
Critics question the announcement, but a cold shutdown is when water used to
cool nuclear fuel rods remains below boiling point, preventing the fuel from reheating
He stressed the need for developed countries to help India increase its nuclear energy production capacity by
making nuclear fuels readily available.
The Fukushima plant is crowded with 10 - meter - tall tanks storing tainted water used to cool
melted nuclear fuel masses and groundwater that infiltrated the site — some 750,000 tons in all.
His discoveries of isotopic heterogeneity at the nanoscale during that exercise gave rise to his interest in developing new forensic tools for
nuclear fuel pellets using NanoSIMS.
2nd JAPAN - IAEA Workshop on Advanced Safeguards Technology for the
Future Nuclear Fuel Cycle, November 10 - 13, 2009, Tokai - mura, Ibaraki, Japan
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