Sentences with phrase «own fuel cycle»

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The US had also signaled it was willing to give up the demand that Iran can not do any fuel cycle work, and that then ultimately led to the current deal.

The problem here was that at the time, not only did the US not want Iran to do any fuel cycle work, the US also opposed any nuclear energy program in Iran.

Eventually, the pressures exerted on Iran did not achieve its aim, Iran was determined to do fuel cycle work.

Under president Bush in 2005, the decision was made that any deal with Iran should be on the basis that Iran is barred from doing any fuel cycle work.

«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 James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant will close at the end of its current fuel cycle, at the end of 2016 or early 2017.

R&D related to advanced reactor technology and fuel cycle sustainability, efficiency, and safety would be scaled back and shifted to earlier - stage technology.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Industry officials say the federal government should determine what its fuel cycle policy will be before issuing such an order.

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.

To support R&D for new reactors and fuel cycles, facilities will ultimately be required with special test capabilities.

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.

Barriers have been erected around areas near a reactor and other fuel cycle areas to prevent workers being exposed to «light or moderate» contamination.

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.

In addition to its unique fuel cycle, the TerraPower design employs a high - temperature, liquid metal core cooling technology suited to a breeder reactor with «fast» neutron activity, rather than today's predominant reactors whose water cooling systems slow neutrons.

We're looking at long term fuel cycle issues versus short term safety issues, which are what came out of Fukushima.»

The new report is considered a good guide to what the influential Blue Ribbon panel is expected to say on issues related to the fuel cycle.

There is almost no work going on in the United Kingdom on future alternative reactor designs, such as Generation IV reactors and small modular reactors and their associated fuel cycles, so Beddington's ad hoc board says the government should actively foster research in these areas.

«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.

The researchers» calculations considered emissions throughout the fuel cycle, from production and transport of each fuel through combustion and including leaks of methane.

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.

«For the next several decades in the U.S. the once - through fuel cycle using light - water reactors is the preferred option,» said M.I.T. physicist and report co-chair Ernest Moniz at its release on September 16 in Washington, D.C. «Light - water reactors are the workhorse, and there's a lot we can do to improve [them].»

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.

«What do you get by complicating the fuel cycle by looking at thorium when we have plenty of uranium?»

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

The reactor, operating at 85 megawatts of power, is currently in its 455th fuel cycle since the first cycle in 1966.

The biofuel industry is built around the idea that turning plants into ethanol creates a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon — usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle.

An optimized closed (fast - reactor) fuel cycle would recycle not just the uranium and plutonium but all actinides in the fuel, including neptunium, americium and curium.

In a once - through fuel cycle, more than 98 percent of the expected long - term radiotoxicity is caused by the resulting neptunium 237 and plutonium 242 (with half - lives of 2.14 million and 387,000 years, respectively).

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.

Such report shall include a response to the International Atomic Energy Agency study entitled «Thorium fuel cycle - Potential benefits and challenges» (IAEA — TECDOC — 1450).

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

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

Extensive knowledge of legislative and regulatory frameworks required to operate existing plants and develop new nuclear in commercial and federal markets worldwide, including Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)- licensed fuel cycle and isotope production facilities.

First Energy spokesperson Jennifer Young told World Nuclear News that the reassessment of operating safety margins is routinely carried out for every new fuel cycle as part of normal practice, regardless of the type of fuel.

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

While browsing through the chemistry section of the Project Ideas Index, the «Water to Fuel to Water: The Fuel Cycle of the Future» project captured his attention.

Jain, Anshu Grade: 8 Harmony School of Innovation - Carrollton - Lewisville, TX Project Title: Water to Fuel to Water: The Fuel Cycle of the Future

According to Global Nuclear Fuels, the GNF2 design delivers higher energy output whilst cutting overall fuel cycle costs, reducing the total amount of uranium and the average enrichment in fuel reloads.

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

The grant will also be used to host an annual workshop focused on developing chemical separations for the fuel cycle designed for undergraduate and graduate students, post doctorate fellows and faculty from collaborating institutions and a summer school course for any U.S. undergraduates interested in the field.