Sentences with phrase «spent fuel forms»

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At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).

You could spend hours scrolling through testing times and fuel loads, or you could let WTF1 round up all of 2014 winter testing in meme form.

These spent satellites with attendant motors, fuel tanks, discarded instrument covers, bolts and the like form a growing population of debris which can become fragmented through collision with other debris or by explosion of residual fuel.

The U.S. government is also interested in recycling the spent nuclear fuel, as France, Japan, Russia and the U.K. do, under the terms of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a consortium of 21 foreign countries as well as domestic nuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclear power.

The M.I.T. report argues that a leasing program, in which countries with the capability to enrich uranium fuel supply it to other countries and then take back the spent fuel for disposal in one form or another at the end of its useful life.

This report advocated for a «spent fuel standard» whereby the plutonium should be converted «to a form from which the plutonium would be as difficult to recover for weapons use as the larger and growing quantity of plutonium in commercial spent fuel.»

Serving up more of the same but without the surprise element of the first, Deadpool 2 is going to be another box - office smash and introduces us to one of the Marvel universes most exciting new characters in the form of Cable but there's the feeling that this franchise as a standalone entity has already spent a fair portion of its blood - soaked and pop - culture infused fuel tickets.

Malibu spent hundreds of hours in GM's wind tunnel, fine - tuning the form to maximize fuel efficiency.

However other countries spend even more tax payer money on fossil fuel subsidies of various forms, including subsidising producers, tax credits, and keeping petrol artificially cheap.

Once the relatively clean - running nuclear plant is online, it produces radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods.

The report «found that growth will be fuelled by the entrance of high profile brands such as Apple into the smartwatch arena, allied to increased consumer affinity with and acceptance of wearable technology» and argues that «the emergence of an additional consumer screen would stimulate interest amongst advertisers, although until a critical user base is reached most ad - spend is likely to take the form of ad hoc campaigns.»