Sentences with word «plutonium»

The commercial terms reportedly include payment per kg of plutonium disposed of.

The options for disposition of plutonium in the UK are essentially:

Japan has large stockpiles of plutonium from civilian uses.

With plutonium use mostly confined to creating the world's most powerful explosives, «there are... very few public - sector opportunities for people to develop these skills,» he added.

Over its estimated 60 - year operating life, for example, PRISM could conceivably process and disposition the entire civil plutonium stockpile in the UK.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

«Atomgrad», the once - secret city in the Urals which produced plutonium for the Soviet nuclear weapons programme, has become the first city in Russia to launch its own currency, the «augram».

The NCC's concern for energy issues dates back to fall 1974 when the Division of Church and Society (DCS) asked Margaret Mead and René Dubos to chair a study of the implications of using plutonium as fuel in the nuclear cycle.

In 1948, when he was working on plutonium production at the Hanford Atomic Energy Project in Richland, Washington, he had a devastating and guilt - producing «dream» in which he envisioned the earth being destroyed by nuclear weapons in the year 1975.

He always had strong inclinations toward art making, but he let his father's practical principles steer him into chemistry, and when the Second World War broke out, he became a nuclear chemist working on plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Americium is removed during reprocessing, so as the freshly separated plutonium ages, americium starts accumulating again.

On June 4, the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is convening a breakfast panel to discuss the downblending and disposal option for plutonium disposition in light of the US - Russia PMDA.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electricity.

This part of the fuel is mainly a blend of plutonium isotopes, with a significant presence of americium.

The nuclear hearts were powered by plutonium - 238, an element that emits close to a century's worth of steady heat due to its natural radioactive decay.

Fast breeders produce more plutonium than they use.

They reveal that nuclear weapons scientists had planned to check 29 plutonium cores with invasive testing at Los Alamos over the past four years.

But the AAAS panel found that substantial upgrades to the current infrastructure would be needed anyway to carry out the RRW program, including at least a doubling of the current assembling and disassembling work at the Pantex nuclear weapon assembly facility as well as a significant increase in the amount of plutonium pits produced at the TA - 55 facility.

Moniz was pushed a bit by Senator Tim Scott (R - SC) on the future of the problem - plagued mixed oxide plutonium fuel plant under construction at the department's Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

When a country such as Iran is wary of nuclear inspections, an experimental detector could help ensure that its reactors are not making plutonium for weapons

After 30 years of development, the technology utilized by PRISM is ready to be commercialized, and can be made operational within the same timeframe as other potential plutonium reuse options.

Plutonium powered and as big as an SUV, NASA's Curiosity rover is crammed with souped - up sensors and a new sky - crane landing system.

Science answers: Spent fuel is more dangerous because it contains a mixture of fission products, some of which can be long - lived radioactive waste, and also plutonium which is highly toxic.

They also list the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran and elsewhere, the Stuxnet cyber-attack on Iranian computer systems related to the Islamic republic's nuclear program, and the 2007 destruction of a Syrian plutonium reactor built with the help of Iran and North Korea.

By now, that reactor would have produced enough plutonium for several nuclear bombs — had it not been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in 2007.

The option — mixing plutonium oxide with an inert material and disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)-- would require modifying the PMDA and increasing the statutory capacity of WIPP (operations at WIPP are currently uncertain due to the February accidental radiation release).

Curiosity's RTG was designed to supply about 125 watts — less energy than what is needed to power a microwave oven — though power levels fall as the radioactive plutonium decays.

Although the mixed oxide (MOX) method is currently being used for spoiling excess weapons plutonium so that it can not be employed in bombs — a good idea — we think that it would be a mistake to deploy the much larger PUREX infrastructure that would be required to process civilian fuel.

A sampling of problems the audit pinpointed include: a request to replace an «unreliable» fire alarm panel in a processed plutonium facility had not been fulfilled; a kitchen hood fire suppression system, required to be tested semiannually, had not been tested in four years; and facility operators did not always have money and time earmarked for fixing outstanding issues.

Thankfully, a big part of the problem with the Chernobyl explosion was horrible communist management and serious reactor design flaws (partly because they needed access to the core to get plutonium for nuclear weapons, as far as I know).

Among the longest lived of these are a group of heavy elements called actinides, which includes plutonium, neptunium, americium and curium, with half - lives of thousands or millions of years.

One alternative to long - term storage, according to Holdren's committee, is to mix plutonium with uranium to produce a mixed - oxide (MOX) fuel for civil nuclear reactors.

Schwartz is an accomplished researcher whose work has focused on plutonium aging and alloys, advanced characterization, and the dynamic properties of materials.

And yet, some scientists say, we have the technology to burn plutonium in a new generation of «fast» reactors.

American arms control negotiators could not tell their Russian counterparts how much plutonium to look for in the sealed containers, and the Russians could not be left to make the measurement themselves.

Foley leads Sigma Division's Characterization and Special Projects team, which conducts microstructural analyses of materials not containing plutonium.

Hitachi's efforts with Horizon and our work with the NDA on PRISM are good indicators of our shared interest in supporting the people of the UK to meet their clean energy and plutonium management goals.

The problem with storing plutonium in a reusable form stems from how the policy could be perceived abroad, says John Holdren, chairman of the committee that wrote the report.

Other plutonium work at PF - 4 also has not fully resumed.

Earlier this year, officials began floating the idea of leaving out the «blanket» of uranium so as to create a reactor that consumes plutonium rather than breeds it.

Advanced fast - neutron reactor technology, however, permits an alternative recycling strategy that does not involve pure plutonium at any stage.

This is in striking contradiction to its presence at the time when the Solar system was formed, and that is why the Galactic radioactive plutonium remained a puzzle.

The potential also exists to initially deploy PRISM to address UK civil plutonium stockpiles with a future option to later expand the facility to provide complete recycling of the resulting used PRISM fuel.