Sentences with phrase «of uranium supply»

Ontario Hydro in a multi-million dollar arbitration relating to the termination of a uranium supply contract with Denison Mines.

That said, the problems of the uranium supply, fuel refining, and waste disposal and / or reprocessing remain.

While other sources of «secondary uranium» are also potentially significant sources of uranium supply, this brief discussion shows that UET in Russia and HEU could be major sources of uranium supply for decades to come.

Table 2 shows that in 2004, more than 45 %, 30,332 tonnes of the 66,658 tonnes of uranium supplied to reactor operators, came from «secondary sources.»

Not exact matches

Uranium has roared ahead in Q1 on the back of the possibility of Japanese reactor restarts and a looming supply and demand imbalance in favor of increased demand.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

The Obama administration knew that Russia had used bribery, kickbacks and extortion to get a stake in the US atomic - energy industry — but cut deals giving Moscow control of a large chunk of the US uranium supply anyway.

Reports suggest it could see the international community provide Tehran with a foreign supply of atomic fuel, so it need not enrich uranium itself, with a package of sanctions such as visa bans if it did not comply.

The world's ample supply of uranium could fuel a much larger fleet of reactors than exists today throughout their 40 - to 50 - year life span.

Visible from space, the Bayan — Obo iron mine in Inner Mongolia is the world's largest source of rare earths, and the Chinese companies supplying them employ acid to dissolve them out of ore rock that often also contains radioactive elements like thorium, radium or even uranium.

The method would still suffice for uranium, but supplies of that were always going to be scarce.

Because the world's uranium supply is finite and the continued growth in the numbers of thermal reactors could exhaust the available low - cost uranium reserves in a few decades, it makes little sense to discard this spent fuel or the «tailings» left over from the enrichment process.

«The fact that it's [the weapons down - blending] winding down and it's not an unlimited supply is part of the market boom in uranium,» NRC's McIntyre speculates.

Nuclear fuel Areva has also signed a contract to supply Chinese nuclear operating companies, including China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC) and CNNC, with uranium fuel — 20,000 tons of the fissile material between now and 2020 for $ 3.5 billion.

Much like Japan, China plans to make the most of its estimated 170,000 tons of domestic uranium supplies by setting up such reprocessing.

With 436 reactors worldwide consuming 65,000 metric tons (one metric ton equals 1.1 U.S. tons) of enriched uranium per year, demand for this nuclear reactor fuel outstrips available supply, which has caused uranium prices to jump from a low of $ 10 per pound a few years ago to more than $ 130 per pound in 2007 and still more than $ 50 per pound today.

Such uranium deposits in Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan comprise the bulk of the world's known supply — although uranium is a ubiquitous atom that can even be derived from seawater.

Since then, large supplies of uranium have been found and the price has fallen.

The M.I.T. report argues that a leasing program, in which countries with the capability to enrich uranium fuel supply it to other countries and then take back the spent fuel for disposal in one form or another at the end of its useful life.

Study co-author Heye Freymuth of the University of Bristol explains: «Although uranium was incorporated into the oceanic crust since the initial rise in atmospheric oxygen about 2.4 billion years ago, the ocean crust did not incorporate higher amounts of uranium - 238 as the oceans did not yet have adequate supplies of oxygen.»

One attractive feature of fast reactors is that they can produce more fuel than they consume, avoiding the issue of the limited supplies of the uranium used in conventional nuclear reactors.

Partners in the Kilopower project include NASA's Glenn Research Center, the Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Lab and the Y12 National Security Complex, which supplies the reactor's uranium.

When this occurs, the uranium drops out of the water supply and can be recovered from the soil.

«Often forgotten, is the need for us to make sure that the buyers of our uranium oxide are able, in the face of resistance to nuclear power, to talk proudly about the responsible mining (and mine site rehabilitation) of their suppliers in Australia.

Iran also agreed to limit its supply of low - enriched uranium to 200 kilograms for 15 years.

The United States» role as the assured supplier of enriched uranium fuel has steadily declined since the late 1970s.

Centrus Energy Corp. is a trusted supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants in the United States and around the world.

While extensive supplies of «secondary source» uranium are held by the U.S., Russia and other countries, secondary source uranium has yet to included in WNA projections of future uranium supply.

That projection forecasts that in 2004, world uranium demand will reach 66,658 tonnes and world uranium supply will reach 66,374 tonnes, leaving a very small supply deficit of 284 tonnes, less that 1 % of total world demand.

The «recycling» of the Russian «excess» HEU is the source of 10,000 - 12,000 tonnes of future uranium supply from HEU forecast in Table 2.

Sometimes referred to as «The Uranium Bible», the Uranium Suppliers Annual contains comprehensive data and information on all of the world's uranium suppliers, including detailed sections on planned producers and junior / exploration comUranium Bible», the Uranium Suppliers Annual contains comprehensive data and information on all of the world's uranium suppliers, including detailed sections on planned producers and junior / exploration comUranium Suppliers Annual contains comprehensive data and information on all of the world's uranium suppliers, including detailed sections on planned producers and junior / exploration cSuppliers Annual contains comprehensive data and information on all of the world's uranium suppliers, including detailed sections on planned producers and junior / exploration comuranium suppliers, including detailed sections on planned producers and junior / exploration csuppliers, including detailed sections on planned producers and junior / exploration companies.

Whether you are a utility, producer, trader, or investor, the Uranium Suppliers Annual provides the basis for understanding potential future developments surrounding the availability of supply, particularly since uranium production has continued to be sub-par against a backdrop of growing Uranium Suppliers Annual provides the basis for understanding potential future developments surrounding the availability of supply, particularly since uranium production has continued to be sub-par against a backdrop of growing uranium production has continued to be sub-par against a backdrop of growing demand.

In light of the increasing volatile nature of the uranium market, primary and potential suppliers are continuously re-evaluating their properties and future production plans, as well as expanding exploration programs where economically feasible.

Centrus Energy is the world's most diversified supplier of enriched uranium fuel for civilian nuclear power reactors.

The reduction in blended down uranium reflects a projected end of current U.S. - Russian HEU blending agreements, but not the end of HEU supplies.

Thus, if they were opened, the new mines in New Mexico would reflect not a «need» for that uranium, but a deliberate policy of not using the large amounts of uranium available from secondary sources to supply the U.S. and world uranium market.

Centrus Energy is a trusted supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants in the United States and around the world.

«If we have technology to capture uranium from seawater, we can ensure that an essentially unlimited supply of the element becomes available if uranium prices go up in the future,» Schneider said.

Centrus Energy is a diversified supplier of enriched uranium fuel for civilian nuclear power reactors.

President Trump and his supporters claim that in exchange for millions of dollars in donations to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton supported the 2010 sale of a mining company that gave Russia control of U.S. uranium supplies.

November 6, 2017 • President Trump and his supporters are again claiming that Hillary Clinton helped Russia gain control of the U.S. uranium supply and endangered U.S. security.

With domestic production of oil, gas and uranium far below peaks, coal has been promoted by elected officials and energy experts as the only bright spot in the national fuel supply picture.

Even in the realm of nuclear power, it seems that Iran wants to refine Uranium and could help supply the world market but needs to have an overwatch so they wouldn't be trusted with making bombs, tomorrow is Hiroshima Day, but again there is a political crisis of insanity overriding good management.

They can be fuelled on anything - uranium, plutonium, thorium, nuclear waste - and can stretch supplies for thousands of years.

Outspokenly; nonrenewable energy sources; which include oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium - are the primary world's energy supplier today and will still remain the major source of world's energy for a foreseeable future.

But the uranium number also depends on use of breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing to make use of the full energy content of the U-238, as well as the initial U-235 that supplies energy the first time through.

Thorium is relatively abundant (a cubic metre of garden soil typically contains around 60g of Thorium), and it is much safer than Uranium or Plutonium (a Thorium reactor can not sustain itself, so if it starts overheating, you just turn off the power supply).

Having a supply of uranium within one's borders is not a requirement to being self sufficient.

And the uranium supply and non-proliferation issues for even that scale of deployment are quite serious.

Uranium fuel prices have been kept artificially low by an enormous supply from the Russion reprocessing of decommissioned nuclear weapons that is sold at far below market prices.