Sentences with phrase «nuclear fuel cycle»

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.

Modern materials science and nuclear fuel cycles brings decades old nuclear technology into the 21st century.

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

This proposed international arrangement is called the assured nuclear fuel cycle.

From 1956 to 1961 he participated as a chemical engineer at Argonne National Laboratory in nuclear fuel cycle research projects.

The current «once - through,» or open, nuclear fuel cycle uses freshly mined uranium, burns it a single time in a reactor and then discharges it as waste.

Most other countries with large nuclear power programs — including France, Japan and the U.K. — employ what is called a closed nuclear fuel cycle.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL) have both completed their investment of some EUR250 million (USD307 million) to acquire 5 % stakes in Orano, the former Areva nuclear fuel cycle activities.

Workers in Federal weapons facilities; medical, biomedical, or university research facilities; or nuclear fuel cycle facilities may receive increased exposures to tritium.

The grants engage professors and students in advanced nuclear fuel cycle research and development in support of President Bush's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and his American Competitiveness Initiative.

Moniz; Mujid Kazimi, director of the MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems; and Charles Forsberg, executive director of the MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study, led a panel discussion of the report yesterday.

Until these risks are properly mitigated and the complete nuclear fuel cycle — from the mining and milling of uranium to the final disposal of radioactive wastes — is sufficiently regulated, nuclear power should not be a leading strategy for diversifying America's energy portfolio and reducing carbon pollution.

Working with INS gives you the support of over 40 years commercial expertise across the whole nuclear fuel cycle.

2nd JAPAN - IAEA Workshop on Advanced Safeguards Technology for the Future Nuclear Fuel Cycle, November 10 - 13, 2009, Tokai - mura, Ibaraki, Japan

He said Monju and other nuclear fuel cycle efforts would receive a «maintenance budget» of $ 445 million.

To reduce the demand for storage space, a sustainable nuclear fuel cycle would separate the short - lived, high - heat - producing fission products, particularly cesium 137 and strontium 90.

He also served as senior vice president of NAC's global consulting business, where he led a group of internationally recognized experts on the comprehensive nuclear fuel cycle, management and strategy, nuclear fuel performance, training, financial and strategic analysis, nuclear quality assurance, safeguards and security, and nuclear industry human resource development.

The industry's leading source of Publications, Data Services, and Consulting, on the Global Nuclear Fuel Cycle Markets

NAC International is a leading nuclear fuel cycle consulting and technology company that has met the nuclear market needs of utilities, government agencies, nuclear fuel suppliers, and financial institutions worldwide for more than 40 years.

I think the jury is out, but if I had to guess, I'd say that improved nuclear fuel cycles and improved waste storage technology have more near - term prospect for solving the waste problem for nuclear than sequestration proposals have for CO2.

Dr. Walker highlighted the vulnerability of the entire nuclear fuel cycle — from uranium mining to nuclear enrichment to commercial nuclear power to spent fuel storage, transportation, and finally reprocessing.

DMS s.r.o. performs transport and carriage of dangerous objects of class 7 (radioactive substances), provides specialised services in the field of nuclear fuel cycle in the Czech Republic and abroad.

The Poly - Functional Radiochemical Complex is intended to try out promising technologies of the closed nuclear fuel cycle.

«Right now, there are no good options for utilities,» said Charles Forsberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, who is the executive director of MIT's nuclear fuel cycle study.

Actually, if you properly do the math - and count if you count the whole nuclear fuel cycle, not just the power plant, not just the core of the reactor, but the occlusion zone, the uranium mining and so on, it turns out that wind power uses hundreds or thousands of times less land per kilowatt hour, then nuclear does.

«The British government will need to do far more, both with our own nuclear arsenal and with cooperation for international control of the nuclear fuel cycle, before these words can be moved beyond rhetoric.»

The report, «The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle,» recommends a multi-decade program of moving spent fuel that now is stored in concrete and steel casks at reactors and decommissioned nuclear plants to a few centralized federal facilities.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

Waste from the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle is usually alpha emitting waste from the extraction of uranium.

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to new requirements to safeguard spent fuel pools at U.S. reactors, but the overall policy toward the nuclear fuel cycle has been bound up in the fight over the proposed fuel repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which the Obama administration wants to terminate.

«With a scaled up solution, not only will we no longer have to think about the dangers of storing radioactive waste long - term, but we will have a viable solution to close the nuclear fuel cycle and contribute to solving the world's energy needs.

The work, published in Science, not only opens the door to expand the use of one of the most efficient energy sources on the planet, but also adds a key step in completing the nuclear fuel cycle — an advance, along with wind and solar, that could help power the world's energy needs cleanly for the future.

The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, often contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and may contain actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium - 234, neptunium - 237, plutonium - 238 and americium - 241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as Cf.

Most of Nangonya's training covered the subjects that might be expected: the ins and outs of the nuclear fuel cycle, how to verify that each and every reported gram of plutonium and uranium are where they are supposed to be, and how to spot signs of illicit activity.

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.

This nuclear fuel cycle would combine two innovations: pyrometallurgical processing (a high - temperature method of recycling reactor waste into fuel) and advanced fast - neutron reactors capable of burning that fuel.

Western aid should focus on making the nuclear fuel cycle safe and secure and not on making some fast money.

Throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, many separations are required — in mining, enrichment and fuel fabrication, and then after fuel use, for the recovery of usable spent isotopes and the encapsulation and storage of unusable radioactive components.

The separation of uranium, a key part of the nuclear fuel cycle, could potentially be done more safely and efficiently through a new technique developed by chemistry researchers at Oregon State University.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.

Studtite, or uranyl peroxyde, is a well - known compound in the nuclear fuel cycle used for decades.

It can therefore be used to close the nuclear fuel cycle, recycling used nuclear fuel to generate energy.

From 1990 to the formation of NEI in 1994 he was the Vice President of Technical Programs at the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA) where he was responsible for ensuring the technical accuracy and effectiveness of USCEA's industry communications and also led the regulatory, policy and R&D activities associated with supporting companies in the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle.

Mr. Dyke has 30 years of experience and leadership in the nuclear industry focusing on the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear nonproliferation issues.

The concerts were part of Honor The Earth's 17 - city and reservation tour designed to highlight native peoples» struggles over religious rights and impacts of the nuclear fuel cycle.

In this issue of Voices from the Earth, the articles on pages 6 to 8 describe how folks on the front (uranium) end of the nuclear fuel cycle are starting to be heard in Washington, DC.