Sentences with phrase «use fuel reprocessing»

The Bush administration's plan to use fuel reprocessing as the spark to revive nuclear power will not succeed.

Not exact matches

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).

To reprocess them, the used fuel is first dissolved in acid and the plutonium and uranium separated.

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

We understand that their first fast reactors will use oxide or carbide fuel rather than metal — a less than optimum path, chosen presumably because the PUREX reprocessing technology is mature, whereas pyroprocessing has not yet been commercially demonstrated.

Meanwhile, Japan has struggled to bring its Rokkasho reprocessing plant online, even with the help of Areva, and currently relies on France and the U.K. to recycle its used uranium fuel rods.

It remains to be seen if China's effort will fare any better, although a pilot plant has been reprocessing limited amounts of used nuclear fuel since 2006 in Gansu.

And Areva, which handles used nuclear fuel recycling for France, is in discussions to help with China's own plans in that regard, including the possibility of building a reprocessing plant in the Gobi Desert in Gansu Province.

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.

From 12 August, British Nuclear Fuels is allowed to test the performance of its thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield using uranium and uranium compounds «derived from natural or depleted uranium».

In these countries, used fuel is recycled to recover uranium and plutonium (produced during irradiation in reactors) and reprocess it into new 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.

«For example,» said Clark, «Used fuel, which is currently disposed of in the United States after a single use in a reactor in what is called an open fuel cycle, would be reprocessed to extract out a significant fraction of re-useable uranium.

It could also make use of other materials the UK Government wishes to disposition including reprocessed uranium and unused fuel from past nuclear reactor programs.

The contract - which includes a one - year base period and four one - year option periods - provides continuing technical assistance and research support to NRC activities related to storage, transportation, possible reprocessing and ultimate geological disposal of used nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive wastes.

The PRISM reactor would use recycled nuclear fuel from a reprocessing facility known as the Advanced Recycling Center (ARC).

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

But the uranium number also depends on use of breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing to make use of the full energy content of the U-238, as well as the initial U-235 that supplies energy the first time through.

U.S. reprocessing would undermine the U.S. goal of halting the spread of fuel cycle technologies that are permitted under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but can be used to make nuclear weapons materials.

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.

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.

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.

Ramp up fuel supply — take back waste — store for a relatively short time and then reprocess for much more efficient 4th gen plants using a range of materials including thorium and plutonium.

Some of the French Speaking Canadians should persuade France to build a few CANDU 600 reactors, and this would allow the French to use free nuclear fuel from its reprocessing plants.

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