Sentences with phrase «use spent fuel»

My point is that any country that wants nuclear weapons will not use civilian nuclear power plants, nor use the spent fuel from them.

But there is also the EM2 reactor that uses spent fuel (one for Dr Tol to alleviate his proliferation worries)

I wonder how much it would cost to build a working prototype — and, as the article mentions, to get all necessary permits — for land, for using spent fuel rods, etc..

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After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

But for now, at least, Canadians had better get used to spending more on the stuff we've long taken for granted: the era of cheap food and fuel, it seems, is over.

· set crazy goals — and reach them, every single day · feed the beast: when you value money and spend it on the right things, you get more of it · shut down the doubters — and use your haters as fuel

Higher gasoline prices encourage more judicious use of vehicles, which translates into drivers spending less on fuel in a given year.

Living Goods sent us estimates of how much customers who buy cookstoves and solar energy products save.122 Living Goods told us that it estimates that its customers save 50 % of their monthly fuel costs on average when using an efficient cookstove, and that typical fuel spending in Uganda tends to be in the range of $ 20 - 25 USD per month pre-stove purchase.123 We have not yet reviewed these estimates.

Crackers, pancakes, waffles and breadsticks are the most popular uses for what others say is «spent fuel» (the microorganisms have already consumed -LSB-...]

All of those billions, all of those millions of hours, spent on projects fueled by geniuses beyond compare, and we're still stuck using long plane flights that discourage our older heroes from traveling.

Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of fuel they were going to start the race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much fuel as possible in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.

Why spent money on sports programs or academic challenges if you can't fuel your students with premium ingredients, which are not any more expensive when used wisely?

3) Fuel poverty is defined as when a household is required to spend more than ten per cent of its income after housing costs on total fuel Fuel poverty is defined as when a household is required to spend more than ten per cent of its income after housing costs on total fuel fuel use.

Those living with mental health problems are often prone to fuel poverty as individuals are often on low or fixed incomes, living in energy inefficient housing and spend more time at home thus have above average energy use.

It's not just the locals who have expressed reservations about using the Peace Bridge as a shipping route for spent nuclear fuel.

The District Chief Executive for the area, Abdulai Yaqoub, lamented the amount of resources the district assembly has spent on fuel and upkeep of the security personnel as a result of the conflict, which could have been used in the provision of social amenities for the people.

And it also means that he has to stop supporting the use of fossil fuels, including his idea to spend perhaps a hundred million dollars to expand the gas plant that is heating the Empire State Plaza and lock in gas emissions into a low - income people - of - color community for the next 30 years in the Arbor Hill area.»

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.

In the U.S., the plan to use Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert as a repository for spent nuclear fuel rods is in limbo, opposed by the Obama administration.

Coupling Reactor Types If advanced fast reactors come into use, they will at first burn spent thermal - reactor fuel that has been recycled using pyroprocessing.

An Outdated Strategy Early nuclear engineers expected that the plutonium in the spent fuel of thermal reactors would be removed and then used in fast - neutron reactors, called fast breeders because they were designed to produce more plutonium than they consume.

Nevertheless, use of plutonium from spent fuel in weapons is not inconceivable.

After all, the spent fuel pools that may have been exposed by the power plant explosions contain more than 200 metric tons of used uranium fuel rods that have been cooling for weeks, months or even years — and smoke or steam continues to billow from the exposed spent fuel pool of reactor No. 3.

He reasoned that if plutonium were not recovered from spent fuel it could not be used to make bombs.

This component is only mildly radioactive and, if separated from the fission products and the rest of the material in the spent fuel, could readily be stored safely for future use in lightly protected facilities.

Fast reactors can thus minimize the risk that spent fuel from energy production would be used for weapons production, while providing a unique ability to squeeze the maximum energy out of nuclear fuel.

«The government is spending around $ 4 billion in subsidies to promote the use of fossil fuels — that is to say we are spending billions to promote global warming and acid rain,» says MacNeill.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

In the interim — which could stretch for a century — used fuel rods will remain where they are: at nuclear power plants themselves either in spent fuel pools or in giant concrete casks on pads.

Throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, many separations are required — in mining, enrichment and fuel fabrication, and then after fuel use, for the recovery of usable spent isotopes and the encapsulation and storage of unusable radioactive components.

In Ellicott City, Md., a smart parking system that uses sensors to detect when parking spaces are open and sends the information to drivers in real time reduced the time they spent looking for parking spots by 21 percent, leading to associated emissions and fuel savings.

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.

The Russian ministry for atomic energy says hydrogen and oxygen reacted in a separation column used for purifying spent fuel.

Dounreay also suffered an explosion at its dumping ground for used sodium coolant that may have contributed to radioactive particles from spent fuel turning up on nearby beaches.

But under the NNPA, U.S. action can be triggered only by concerns that U.S. - origin spent fuel may be used for nuclear weapons production, or may be vulnerable to theft or terrorism.

This report advocated for a «spent fuel standard» whereby the plutonium should be converted «to a form from which the plutonium would be as difficult to recover for weapons use as the larger and growing quantity of plutonium in commercial spent fuel.»

We have likewise been storing spent nuclear fuel at our nuclear plant sites since the country began using nuclear energy.

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

Use of standard LWR fuel allows leveraging extensive experience and infrastructure for the storage, handling, and shipment of spent reactor fuel.

Assuming people drive relatively the same amount, cars will use more fuel, meaning more spending at the pump, and more pollution into the atmosphere.

Muons, Inc., a private - sector high - energy accelerator physics firm, and ADNA (Accelerator - Driven Neutron Applications) Corp., are proposing using spent nuclear fuel (SNF), natural uranium, or excess weapons - grade plutonium (W - Pu) in a proposed GEM * STAR accelerator - driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) to provide... Read more →

PRISM, coupled with electrometallurgical processing, is a technology solution that can help close the nuclear fuel cycle using the energy contained in spent nuclear fuel or plutonium.

After that, the cooled spent fuel is removed, cleared and stored using natural air flow for cooling.

To this end, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi, is researching a reactor design which would use recycled spent nuclear fuel instead of creating new fuel.

One of the most vexing issues facing the nuclear power industry today is what to do with the spent nuclear fuel after it has been used in a nuclear reactor.

To make the reactor self - sufficient in case of any leakage, including a break in the main circulation pump, it is possible to use additionally the water from the spent fuel storage pool for at least 72 hrs (an extra inventory of about 800 m3).

PRISM fuel is metallic, which allows the use of a simple electrometallurgical process to recover all the long - lived waste products that make spent fuel so problematic to dispose of.

Using its licensed casks, NAC has safely completed more than 3,700 cask movements of spent fuel, high - level waste and other nuclear materials.

According to a paper by Xuegang Liu of the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering, The Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing («Spent Nuclear Fuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storFuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storfuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storage.