Sentences with phrase «uranium enrichment plant»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, it emerged that France has been paying Russia more than $ 20 million a year to treat French nuclear waste at the uranium enrichment plant at Tomsk.

Nuclear power plants have never played a significant role in electricity generation in the West, but the Bush administration policy to promote nuclear energy includes two major new facilities - a research reactor in Idaho and a uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico.

Another aspect of the world uranium situation is the uranium enrichment plant proposed for Eunice, New Mexico by Louisiana Energy Services (LES).

A measure of the effort expended in a uranium enrichment plant to separate uranium of a given U235 content into two components, one having a higher percentage of U235 and the other a lower concentration.

The UF6 Manual: Good Handling Practices for Uranium Hexafluoride, USEC - 651, is the tenth revision of a document first issued by the Atomic Energy Agency in 1957 to provide information on how uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is handled in a uranium enrichment plant.