Sentences with phrase «spent fuel reprocessing»

Although Japan has scant prospects for moving ahead with the pluthermal program, it has not abandoned plans to start up its own spent fuel reprocessing facility.

The letter also urged the U.S. government to ask China and South Korea to review their own plans to one day construct a spent fuel reprocessing facility.

Not exact matches

February 21, 2005: Seoul's semi-official Yonhap News Agency reports that South Korea's defense minister, Yoon Kwang - ung, tells a National Assembly Committee that North Korea has reprocessed «only part» of the 8,000 spent fuel rods from the Yongbyon reactor.

Spent fuel from Sizewell B, Britain's first pressurised water reactor, will not be sent to Sellafield for reprocessing.

But this spent fuel, which retains more than 95 percent of its energy, can be reprocessed to make new fuel, reducing the ultimate volume of waste by more than 60 percent.

The issue concerns what to do with radioactive waste after uranium and plutonium have been recovered from spent nuclear fuel using reprocessing methods such as Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtraction (PUREX).

This allows the spent fuel to be reprocessed in a radically different manner from that used in France.

And India wants the United States to grant the Indian government the right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel sourced from the United States.

Steinberg said the Obama Administration intends to go forward with the next steps in implementing the agreement, although «there are still some technical issues to be worked out,» including whether India can reprocess spent fuel that originated in the United States.

Thus it remains intact, disarming concerns about long - term spent fuel storage or the theft of nuclear material during refueling or fuel reprocessing, the company said.

Therefore, either reprocessing or recycling spent nuclear fuel, as the French and Japanese do, is likely to be a waste of money better spent on improving the light - water reactors presently in use.

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

Alongside the existing clout that the United States has to ensure spent fuel isn't reprocessed to make bombs, they suggest that the United States should push countries to improve safety.

The southern Urals are home to the secretive Mayak facility, the scene of one of the world's worst nuclear accidents 60 years ago, and speculation soon turned to a possible accident at its reprocessing plant, which extracts isotopes from spent nuclear fuel.

Its five reactors, which used to produce plutonium for bombs, have now been closed down, but Mayak still reprocesses spent fuel from civilian reactors.

Japan has commissioned Britain and France to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel to extract plutonium.

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.

We used to reprocess spent fuel rods until 1/2 ton of enriched uranium somehow wound up in Israel.

Energy Probe has also been successful in stopping the export of Canada's Candu nuclear reactors, most of which have been sought by states with nuclear weapons aspirations — the Candu design lends itself to surreptitious diversion of spent fuel suitable for reprocessing into weapons grade material.

Reprocessing and the use of plutonium as reactor fuel are also far more expensive than using uranium fuel and disposing of the spent fuel directly.

We can store and reprocess spent nuclear fuel, Sen. Obama, no problem.

An Argonne National Laboratory scientist recently estimated that the cost premium for reprocessing spent fuel would range from 0.4 to 0.6 cents per kilowatt - hour — corresponding to an extra $ 3 to $ 4.5 billion per year for the current U.S. nuclear reactor fleet.

Dr. Walker highlighted the vulnerability of the entire nuclear fuel cycle — from uranium mining to nuclear enrichment to commercial nuclear power to spent fuel storage, transportation, and finally reprocessing.

As for the breakdown of electricity rates, more detailed information needs to be disclosed, such as (1) «wheeling charges» (cost of transmitting electricity); (2) the cost of generated electricity equivalent to the amount of expenses shared to cover the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, etc. (included in the wheeling charges; legislation requires all electricity users to pay a share of this cost); and (3) the amount of a «promotion of power - resources development tax,» which is used to subsidize local governments hosting nuclear power plants.

In reprocessing 95 % of spent fuel can be recycled to be returned to usage in a power plant (4).

France and Japan, on the other hand, routinely extract and reprocess plutonium for reuse as reactor fuel, but the dual - use potential of this process has led Holdren and his coauthors to recommend a «once - through fuel cycle» in which the spent fuel is not reprocessed, but instead goes directly into a storage repository.

After usage in the power plant, the spent fuel is delivered to a reprocessing plant (2) or to a final repository (3) for geological disposition.

For these three states, which have all reprocessed spent fuel to extract weapons grade plutonium, the situation is far more difficult.

First of all Uraniu Nitride fuel provides possibility spend fuel be reprocessed by enrichment indefinite number of times therefore practicaly no nuclear waist.

Nuclear power, particularly next - generation nuclear power with a closed fuel cycle (where spent fuel is reprocessed), is uniquely scalable, and environmentally advantageous.