Sentences with phrase «source than uranium»
As a result, the sources of radiation exposure would be different isotopes for a thorium - based radiation source than uranium - based source, and the relationship between exposure and health effect would be different as well.
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Uranium Prices Fall to their Lowest Level In More than Ten Years: Global Uranium Price Trends, Reactor Plans, Uranium Resources and Information Sources Presented at Western Mining Action Network (WMAN) Biennial Conference, San Carlos, Arizona, Paul Robinson, Research Director, November 18, 2016
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.»
In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition of volcanic and lighter gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).
The costs are too high, they take too long to deploy, and I am VERY concerned that we are FAR more dependent on foreign sources of uranium fuel than we are for oil.