Sentences with phrase «other than uranium»

-- The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall establish generally applicable environmental standards for the protection of the public and the general environment from radioactive material released from facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process, including facilities to fabricate fuel enriched with actinide elements other than uranium.

-- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall establish standards for protection against radiation (including occupational exposures) resulting from activities at facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process, including facilities to fabricate fuel enriched with actinide elements other than uranium.

[2] Minor actinides (MAs): Elements synthesized in nuclear fuel other than uranium and plutonium, such as neptunium, americium and curium.

Not exact matches

Canada must obtain U.S. approval to transfer any U.S. uranium to any country other than the United States, the letter says.

So Energy Fuels has a little bit more leverage to the uranium price than some of the other companies we cover.

Despite the fact that Russia has plentiful uranium supplies within its border rendering any Australian or other uranium sale ban toothless, sometimes optics are more important than reality in moving markets and it appears that this is the case here.

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

The machines handle the decaying element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.

The thin calcite deposits on cave art can be contaminated by new flows of uranium - containing water, dust, or other detritus, making the art seem older than it is, he and his colleagues argued.

Rather than the pellets of uranium oxide used in other fast reactors and conventional reactors as fuel, GE would fabricate metal alloy fuels, with the plutonium or uranium mixed with zirconium metal.

The team found that gravel and other large bits adsorbed less uranium (IV) than smaller grains.

Uranium prices have doubled in the past year and half, rising more steeply than the price for oil or any other metal, including gold.

Others note that Germany is a nation with nine direct neighbors and imports 100 % of its consumed uranium, 98 % of its oil, 82 % of its natural gas, and 77 % of its hard coal — and the bulk of oil and gas imports, about 35 % each (more than the EU average), come from Russia.

Known reserves of uranium (other than low concentrations in granite and seawater) are actually roughly equivalent in energy content to estimated fossil fuel reserves.

This uranium is no more dangerous after being in the reactor than it was before (except that now it's mixed with other products).