Sentences with phrase «when uranium»

The nuclear fuel cycle begins when uranium is mined, enriched, and manufactured into nuclear fuel, (1) which is delivered to a

The nuclear fuel cycle begins when uranium is mined, enriched, and manufactured into nuclear fuel, (1) which is delivered to a nuclear power plant.

When we recommend uranium mining stocks, we want to see a positive cash flow, preferably even when uranium prices are low.

When uranium firm Cameco faced mine floods a few years ago and again after the Fukushima - Daiichi nuclear disaster, its stock cratered, but the bonds dropped only a buck.

«When uranium mining and processing became big business during the Cold War, the federal government subsidized the industry.

«When uranium corrodes, it can form either uranium oxide or uranium hydride.

It is also said to be «fertile,» because when a uranium 238 atom absorbs a neutron without splitting, it transmutes into plutonium 239, which, like uranium 235, is fissile and can sustain a chain reaction.

When a uranium price recovery happens, Energy Fuels has a significant number of assets that could be brought into production, some former producers, some larger assets with large capital budgets.

Resource Capital Funds is set to emerge with a near 30 per cent stake in Vimy Resources when the uranium company completes a $ 22 million capital boost to fund ongoing work at its Mulga Rock project in the eastern Goldfields.

Not exact matches

However, when asked to comment, one CEO said Canada is in a strong position because Candu reactors use heavy water instead of boiled or pressurized water, which allows the reactor to run on natural uranium instead of enriched uranium fuel.

State Labor faces a political and ideological challenge when it next addresses its policy on uranium.

ALAN Eggers made about $ 60 million for himself, and $ 1 billion for other shareholders in Summit Resources, when Paladin Energy bought it at the height of the 2007 uranium boom.

We covered it during the 2016 presidential campaign, when Donald Trump falsely accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of giving away U.S. uranium rights to the Russians and claimed — without evidence — that it was done in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation.

Uranium mineralisation at Cliff South and Cleo offer upside when the market for uranium reUranium mineralisation at Cliff South and Cleo offer upside when the market for uranium reuranium recovers.

This was when the bureau, the FBI, so clearly had this information [about Uranium One].

This rise created a healthy market for junior uranium explorers, which was promptly slaughtered when the contract price tanked in the wake of the 2008 crash, and was done in after Fukushima melted down a few years later.

When it ceases or CCJ becomes more acquisitive, the «turn» in uranium could be upon us.

Since these elements exist only for a definite span of years, and all the uranium, radium, thorium and other radioactive elements in the world today have not yet existed that many years, there was a time, prior to the duration of this span in the past, when these elements DID NOT EXIST!

Still again, an atom of uranium decays into an atom of lead — when?

Facebook, when not stealing your data to help the Russians tell you that Hillary Clinton is selling uranium to children in the basement of a pizza place, is a great place for the people from your high school who used to smoke things they found in ditches to scream about wisdom.

Now, when Iran is allowed to enrich uranium themselves, Russia is at big loss.

It said: «Considering the recent Supreme Court decision in the GITMO 2 case when interpreting Article 75 of the Constitution of Ghana, it is clear that this arrangement, which has been shrouded in utmost secrecy ought to have received Parliamentary ratification at the very least before handing over our highly - enriched uranium to the Chinese if that is the path we consider to be in our strategic national interest.»

Exelon Corp., owner of Nine Mile Point, estimated it would cost about $ 125 million to resupply FitzPatrick with uranium fuel rods next fall, which would allow the plant to continue operating two years beyond when plant owner Entergy Corp. plans to shut it down, the administration official said.

Depending on shifting cave conditions and varying amounts of uranium drainage from mineral deposits, this method can over - or underestimate when rock art was created, the scientists argued.

When bombarding uranium with neutrons, Hahn had made some surprising observations that went against everything known at the time about the dense cores of atoms — their nuclei.

In 2009, when the reactor was running low on fuel, negotiations broke down over Iran's request to purchase low - enriched uranium fuel plates.

Stuxnet first made headlines when it burrowed into computers that controlled uranium centrifuges in Iran's renegade nuclear program.

«But when the team needs something done during inspection,» such as verifying whether a canister really contains a certain amount of uranium hexafluoride, «it must be done right then and there.»

After about three years of service, when technicians typically remove used fuel from one of today's reactors because of radiation - related degradation and the depletion of the uranium 235, plutonium is contributing more than half the power the plant generates.

But in 1999, when an accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokaimura killed two workers and contaminated the plant, AMOOTY was still considered too experimental to use.

It is the waste left over when the isotope uranium - 235 is extracted from naturally - occurring uranium to fuel nuclear power stations and build nuclear bombs.

Sharp used a mass spectrometer to measure the ratio of uranium to thorium in the coral and then, with a single age equation, calculated when the coral first grew on a reef.

This behavior reveals that different chemistry occurs when a water molecule is added to protactinium versus the heavier actinide dioxide cations of uranium, neptunium, and plutonium.

«I expect some major new finds and discoveries by 2010,» says George Bell, president and CEO of Toronto - based uranium exploration company, UNOR, Inc. «These would be shipping by 2017 and that's when you need it,» because that's when the planned new wave of reactors will begin to fire up.

For instance, when particles from uranium bump into water, they can create hydrogen gas, hydrogen peroxide, and oxygen.

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.

Fallout is a mélange of the vaporized environment — soil and structures that were near the blast — laced with fission products (radioisotopes created when fissile materials like uranium or plutonium fission), activation products (radioisotopes formed when the blast radiation transmutes shielding and other bomb components), and residual nuclear material.

Separated from the rock, uranium or any other toxic metal could easily hitch a ride when the drilling wastewater is siphoned back to the surface, Bank found.

But when water corrodes uranium, the reaction also releases hydrogen.

When the clusters form, each contains 20 to 60 uranium atoms, «so we can extract them in whole bunches instead of one at a time,» Nyman said.

In particular, the researchers found that a higher ratio of uranium - 238 to uranium - 235 is incorporated into the modern oceanic crust, when compared to the uranium isotope signature found in meteorites.

When Kempthorne first proposed opening up the land to uranium mining, several concerned parties — including dozens of elected officials, public utilities and Native American tribes — complained about potential threats to surface and ground water from such activities.

This happened in 1986 when a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl caught fire and exploded, showering surrounding territory with radioactive particles and threatening to let molten uranium fuel seep deep into the ground.

Fusion is the opposite of fission, which frees energy when an atom like uranium splits into two smaller atomic nuclei.

In contrast, when the Japanese students realized they would need sugar to make uranium hexafluoride (from which they could extract the uranium) they had to bring in their own meager rations.

«What do you get by complicating the fuel cycle by looking at thorium when we have plenty of uranium?»

Then they used uranium / lead dating to determine the age of each zircon (the time when its parent rock crystallized).

Scientists had previously witnessed decreasing concentrations of uranium in groundwater when iron - breathing bacteria were active, but they have yet to show that those iron - breathing bacteria were directly respiring the uranium.

According to Weber, peer - reviewed studies have also indicated that food crops can accumulate uranium when irrigated by water containing high concentrations of it.

The researchers looked for signs of bacterial activity when they gradually added small amounts of dissolved uranium at the right concentration back to the samples where uranium had become immobilized.