Sentences with phrase «nuclear fuel cycles»

A somewhat farfetched idea I had was that maybe nuclear fuel cycles could be developed that produced stable isotopes of Ga, In, Rh, Ru, Pd, Ag, Te, Xe, Re, Ir, Pt, and / or Au, etc. (some of those would be helpful to the solar cell industry)-- this would indirectly reduce the mining footpring of nuclear power.

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.

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

«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.»

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

But for those of us who have been on the front and back end of the nuclear fuel cycle know that this isn't the answer.

Over the years, Ms. Eisenhower has served as a member of three blue ribbon commissions for the Department of Energy for three different secretaries: The Baker - Cutler Commission on U.S. Funded Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia; The Sununu - Meserve Commission on Nuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter of 2012.

Areva began the process of splitting off its nuclear fuel cycle activities into «New Areva» in August 2016, combining the Areva Mines, Areva NC, Areva Projects and Areva Business Support companies and their respective subsidiaries.

PRISM, coupled with electrometallurgical processing, is a technology solution that can help close the nuclear fuel cycle using the energy contained in spent nuclear fuel or plutonium.

Leveraging our deep technical expertise and working together with our strategic partners in the industry, Centrus offers solutions across the nuclear fuel cycle to help our utility customers lower their financial and implementation risks.

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.

The nuclear fuel cycle is complex, with long lead times between different stages.

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.

Educational resources and information about Centrus» role in the nuclear fuel cycle and the important role nuclear power plays in our everyday lives

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

The government noted Japan's basic energy policy - decided by the Cabinet in April 2014 - aims to promote the nuclear fuel cycle, including the promotion of fast reactor development.

The Japanese policy on the back - end of the nuclear fuel cycle is still unpredictable in the aftermath of the accident.

How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment and geological disposal policy.State - of - the - art technologies for overall back - end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here.

In particular, nuclear transmutation technology has been drawing significant attention after the accident.This publication is timely with the following highlights: 1) Development of accelerator - driven systems (ADSs), which is a brand - new reactor concept for transmutation of highly radioactive wastes; 2) Nuclear reactor systems from the point of view of the nuclear fuel cycle.

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

OECD, 2013, «The Economics of the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle», Figure ES.1 http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2013/7061-ebenfc-execsum.pdf

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.

For one thing I don't know anywhere near enough about the details of the nuclear fuel cycle.

President Bush has proposed an even broader proliferation prevention scheme that looks at both the enrichment and spent - fuel treatment phases of the nuclear fuel cycle.

There is no nuclear fuel cycle that can, on technical grounds alone, be made proliferation - proof against governments bent on siphoning off materials to make weapons.

These weapons are made from waste from the nuclear fuel cycle and thus contain the whole lethal nuclear cocktail.

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.

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.

any nuclear reactor wherever located; any nuclear fuel cycle facility; any radioactive waste management facility; the transport and storage of nuclear fuels or radioactive wastes; the manufacture, use, storage, disposal and transport of radioisotopes for agricultural, industrial, medical and related scientific and research purposes; and the use of radioisotopes for power generation in space objects

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.