Sentences with phrase «plutonium stockpile»

PRISM is able to include weapons - grade plutonium as part of the fuel mix, which helps reduce plutonium stockpiles.

PRISM could also be used as an efficient, clean, cost - effective way to disposition plutonium stockpiles, while also generating low - carbon electricity.

An adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama expressed concerns about Japan's plan to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel, pills citing the ever - increasing plutonium stockpile already in the nation's possession.

10/13/15 An adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama expressed concerns about Japan's plan to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel, citing the ever - increasing plutonium stockpile already in the nation's possession.

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.

The university will provide GEH with expert technical knowledge and input to the potential deployment of GEH's innovative PRISM reactor, designed to disposition the U.K.'s growing plutonium stockpile while at the same time generating 600 megawatts of low - carbon electricity.

The timing is perfect for a nation concerned about plutonium stockpiles to take a leading global role in plutonium disposition.

«Manchester is a growing center of expertise for the civil nuclear energy sector, so we're delighted to work with them on PRISM, which we believe is the best way to manage the U.K.'s plutonium stockpile efficiently, securely and safely while generating low - carbon electricity at the same time.»

PRISM is a high energy neutron (fast) reactor design which uses a series of proven, safe and mature technologies to provide an innovative solution to disposition plutonium stockpiles and harness the remaining energy potential of used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium.

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

Nevertheless, after rigorous examination, I have concluded that upholding the agreement and affirming the diplomatic path that has been charted represents the best course of action to prevent Iran from weaponizing its uranium and plutonium stockpiles,» Mr. Jeffries wrote.

The British government spends billions guarding its plutonium stockpile against terrorists.

«It's a very important prerequisite for the control of nuclear materials,» says Brian Chow of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, who has analysed ways of reducing the world's plutonium stockpile.

«As you know,» he added, «The Russians have done a lot of work on fast reactor technology, and they have to find a cost - effective means of reducing their plutonium stockpile.

The end of the fast reactor programme will also leave the British government and the nuclear industry with the problem of how to deal with its plutonium stockpile.

GEH has previously proposed the Prism reactor as a possible option for managing the UK's plutonium stockpile.

We believe PRISM is the most efficient, clean, cost - effective way to rapidly manage the UK's plutonium stockpile, while also generating low - carbon electricity, using proven technology.

At the end of 2000, Japan's plutonium stockpile was 37.2 tons.

This model, if chosen, transfers risk away from the UK Government, with industry taking a lead for managing the UK's plutonium stockpile, and the UK taxpayer only paying as plutonium is dispositioned.

That, in turn, has led to an increase of Japan's plutonium stockpile to an amount that could produce about 6,000 nuclear warheads.

At the end of 2014, Japan had a plutonium stockpile of 47.8 tons, stored both in Japan and abroad.

Loewen said the NDA and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in the UK have a number of potential options to deal with the plutonium stockpile against the alternative of permanent storage.

And since Japan is the only non-nuclear-weapon state capable of reprocessing plutonium to make nuclear weapons, this may well explain why Japan's plutonium stockpile has also sounded alarm bells in the Western world.

Earlier this year, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) threw a competition that appeared to be stacked in favour of Areva's MOX project wide open, with a report that declared that all three projects presented «credible reuse options» for the country's plutonium stockpile.

I should add that GE - Hitachi are offering the PRISM to the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for disposal of the UK's plutonium stockpile.