Sentences with phrase «uranium enrichment»

The robot is designed to measure radiation levels within processing pipes used for uranium enrichment.

And he works as a senior vice president and general counsel for a top uranium enrichment firm.

The laser process has long held the promise of cheaper uranium enrichment, but mastering it efficiently has so far proved elusive.

WHEN Mostafa Ahmadi - Roshan, a chemist at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in Iran, was killed on 11 January by a magnetic bomb stuck to his car, he became the fifth such victim in Iran, according to William Tobey of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

We are investing in several new projects to rebuild the U.S. nuclear industry, including a multibillion - dollar uranium enrichment facility in Idaho.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this week granted a licence to allow construction of a plant that uses a controversial uranium enrichment process — one that critics fear could pose a serious nuclear - proliferation risk.

We represent uranium enrichment companies in the United States and have assisted companies in obtaining the necessary NRC licenses for these activities.

With world - class technical and engineering capabilities, Centrus is advancing the next generation of centrifuge technologies so that America can restore its domestic uranium enrichment capability in the future.

WELNA: Speaking on the phone from Omaha, Warren Buffett says he sank some of his large fortune into the uranium fuel bank being launched today with this hope - that its promise of an uninterrupted nuclear fuel supply would discourage countries from developing their own uranium enrichment programs.

One focused on closing the isolation valves of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility and the other aimed to change the speeds of the rotors in the centrifuges.

The report makes clear that not only has Iran not suspended uranium enrichment activities.

The board advises Centrus» senior management in its efforts to restore America's domestic uranium enrichment capability for national security purposes and to expand the company's role as trusted supplier of enriched uranium fuel for nuclear reactors in the United States and around the world.

Centrus» development of U.S. uranium enrichment technology will provide the assurance of a domestically owned and operated nuclear fuel supply for decades to come.

When Obama became president in 2009, his foreign - policy agenda, which appeared on the White House website, also said that he «supports tough and direct diplomacy with Iran without preconditions,» such as Tehran suspending uranium enrichment.

For example, «Iran will convert its sensitive Fordow uranium enrichment facility into an international «nuclear, physics, and technology centre,» allowing it to remain open as a research lab.

With world - class technical and engineering capabilities, Centrus is advancing the next generation of centrifuge technologies so that America can restore its domestic uranium enrichment capacity.

«With new contracts for our nuclear fuel business, an extension of our work on U.S. uranium enrichment technology, and our expansion into the advanced reactor sector through our new partnership with X-energy, Centrus is building on our tradition as a trusted long - term partner to the nuclear industry.»

Iran is still theoretically limited by the JCPOA (though it is debatable just how much this actually limits Iran, as the limits on uranium enrichment will sunset), and Trump can sanction Iran.

It also possesses uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing technologies.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.

In return, this means recognising Iran's right as a NPT member to continue uranium enrichment up to 3.5 or 5 percent.

Iran could resume its 20 per cent uranium enrichment, according to Akbar Salehi, Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI).

We must seek to re-engage the Iranians; to dissuade them, through incentives and security guarantees, from pursuing uranium enrichment - related activities.

Cyberattacks have damaged an Iranian uranium enrichment facility, brought a multinational oil company's operations to a halt, and stolen the personnel files of millions of U.S. federal employees.

Standoff over refueling an aging research reactor paved way for key advance in Iran's uranium enrichment know - how.

In real life, once Groves decided to kill centrifugal separation in favor of uranium enrichment by gaseous diffusion, Karl became one of the planners for the big gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.

DOE officials estimate the robots could save tens of millions of dollars in completing the characterization of uranium deposits at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, and save perhaps $ 50 million at a similar uranium enrichment plant in Paducah, Kentucky.

He is credited with orchestrating the set up of Pakistan's hi - tech uranium enrichment facilities.

Reactors not using natural uranium fuel require uranium enrichment,...

A U.S. government guard stands watch over gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment seized in 2003 from a ship bound for Libya.

This secret facility for uranium enrichment came to light in 2009, 2 years after Iran started building it.

For the past half century, commercial uranium enrichment has employed one of two technologies: gaseous diffusion or gas centrifuge.

GE - Hitachi's subsidiary Global Laser Enrichment is poised to receive a license to build and operate the world's first laser - based uranium enrichment plant.

n guarantees were approved at the end of 2007, making U.S. taxpayers the co-signers on l... s for new reactors and uranium enrichment projects, half of which are predicted to default.

Achieving that longer lead time requires blocking Iran's four routes to nuclear weapons: through its Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities, where thousands of centrifuges separate uranium isotopes; through plutonium production at the Arak heavy water reactor, which Iran says is needed to produce medical radioisotopes; and by way of a covert path involving undisclosed facilities.

By one estimate, this amount would have been almost enough to both fund North Korea's uranium enrichment facilities, and to design, make and test its nuclear weapons,» the report said.

Should that occur, there would be no need to mine any more uranium ore for centuries and no further requirement, ever, for uranium enrichment.

That the agreement does not include any of those realities because it is aimed at curtailing centrifuge production and uranium enrichment — and that it has done so successfully — was not mentioned.

The products have possible use in a nuclear program, particularly the uranium enrichment program.