Sentences with phrase «use low enriched uranium»

Uranium metal enriched with Uranium - 235 is used in heavy water reactors while light water reactors use low enriched Uranium.

For two decades, up to 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States was generated by fuel fabricated using low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

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For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

Light water - cooled graphite - moderated reactors Fuelled by low - enriched uranium oxide, these reactors use graphite as a moderator and water to cool the core.

Virtually the entire U.S. nuclear reactor fleet participated in this program by using fuel fabricated with low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

Through a multi-step process in Russia, the bomb - grade uranium material was converted into a different chemical form and then diluted into low enriched uranium suitable for use in fabricating commercial nuclear power reactor fuel.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

The company «down blends» highly enriched uranium into low enriched uranium for private sector use.

(The DOE also is apparently considering a different fast reactor design that would use high - assay, low - enriched uranium fuel, but this material is in short supply and a new production source would have to be established.

In any case, the DOE has not yet determined if it is feasible to use low - enriched uranium.)