Sentences with phrase «uses depleted uranium»

Because it uses depleted uranium.

It is a 4th generation reactor design that uses depleted uranium.

«Clean Coal» is NOT even remotely clean (see: mercury, acid rain, or strip - mining), and if you think nuclear power is clean: just look around at the effects of nuclear radiation, and birth defects in Iraq and Afghanistan (INCLUDING American soldiers and war veterans) from using depleted uranium munitions.

The company pointed out that its own mPower reactor is based on pressurized water reactor technology using standard enriched uranium as fuel, whereas TerraPower's TWR «is a larger reactor based on Generation IV technology and designed to use depleted uranium as fuel.»

Not exact matches

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's recent comment that U.S. and NATO - led forces use weapons with «nuclear components» may be a reference to depleted - uranium munitions, whose health impact is still being studied

Depleted uranium metal can be used as shielding, for example.

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».

When FBRs are used in «breeder» mode, plutonium is produced in a blanket of depleted uranium around the core.

This radioactive metal is sometimes used in the production of nuclear weapons as a substitute for depleted Uranium.

«Now these fast reactors — they can use all that depleted uranium for fuel.

Heavy metals and toxic chemicals like depleted uranium and Agent Orange were used during these tests, with the result that residents of the island report the highest cancer rates in the Caribbean.

If a health physicist's local newspaper runs a semi-hysterical series of reports and commentaries overstating the dangers of depleted uranium used in weapons, that scientist can't dictate a thing to the newspaper, but she can certainly criticize the reports and the commentaries.

There are many nuclear fuel options: thorium, unenriched uranium (e.g. in heavy water reactors), enriched uranium in many different types of reactors, depleted uranium, «spent fuel» / used fuel» / «nuclear waste».

Alternative uses of depleted uranium are few.

The TWR is a liquid sodium - cooled fast reactor that uses depleted or natural uranium as fuel.