Sentences with phrase «with uranium fuel»

Nuclear fuel Areva has also signed a contract to supply Chinese nuclear operating companies, including China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC) and CNNC, with uranium fuel — 20,000 tons of the fissile material between now and 2020 for $ 3.5 billion.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Reports suggest it could see the international community provide Tehran with a foreign supply of atomic fuel, so it need not enrich uranium itself, with a package of sanctions such as visa bans if it did not comply.

Instead of running on solid uranium — the industry's mainstay for more than 50 years — it would rely on liquid fuel suffused with thorium, which is three times as abundant as uranium.

The reactor uses uranium dioxide fuel particles that are also coated with graphite so they will not crack and release fission products even in extreme heat.

The researchers discovered uranium from nuclear fuel embedded in or associated with caesium - rich micro particles that were emitted from the plant's reactors during the meltdowns.

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 (uranium and plutonium have been recovered from spent nuclear fuel using reprocessing methods such as Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtraction (Uranium Redox EXtraction (PUREX).

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

Even though the plants begin with fuel that has had its uranium 235 content enriched, most of that easily fissioned uranium is gone after about three years.

That is also enough to meet almost half the fuel needs of the 104 U.S. reactors, once various plants located throughout the country shape this uranium into half - inch -(1.27 - centimeter --RRB- diameter black pellets and then form them into rods by coating the pellets with zirconium cladding.

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.

With 436 reactors worldwide consuming 65,000 metric tons (one metric ton equals 1.1 U.S. tons) of enriched uranium per year, demand for this nuclear reactor fuel outstrips available supply, which has caused uranium prices to jump from a low of $ 10 per pound a few years ago to more than $ 130 per pound in 2007 and still more than $ 50 per pound today.

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.

The M.I.T. report argues that a leasing program, in which countries with the capability to enrich uranium fuel supply it to other countries and then take back the spent fuel for disposal in one form or another at the end of its useful life.

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.

Rather than the pellets of uranium oxide used in other fast reactors and conventional reactors as fuel, GE would fabricate metal alloy fuels, with the plutonium or uranium mixed with zirconium metal.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

This includes working with and developing alternate fuels like recycled uranium, mixed oxide and thorium, as well as Tier 1 contracts for the management and decommissioning of nuclear sites in the United States and Canada.

It is relatively easy to separate this plutonium, because the depleted uranium blanket is less contaminated with highly radioactive fission products than regular spent fuel.

The study evaluated scenarios with partial and full - core loading of mixed uranium - plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel and confirmed that MOX could be used in the NuScale core with minimal effect on the reactor's design and operation.

But the fuel assemblies that power a commercial nuclear reactor at an electric utility generally need uranium with a 4 % — 5 % concentration of U235.

HEU can be blended with other forms of uranium in a series of complex technologies that result in dilution of the concentration of U-235 from the 90 % range in HEU down to the three to five percent used in reactor fuel.

There are serious proliferation risks associated with uranium enrichment and the use of plutonium as a fuel.

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.

As part of its nuclear fuel recycling program, Japan has been pushing its pluthermal plan that involves mixing plutonium with uranium to produce plutonium - uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.

Centrus has signed several new sales contracts in the last three months to supply its utility customers with low - enriched uranium fuel.

With domestic production of oil, gas and uranium far below peaks, coal has been promoted by elected officials and energy experts as the only bright spot in the national fuel supply picture.

While thorium itself looks relatively benign compared with uranium, the fuel cycle produces a number of highly radioactive by - products.

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

Whether we have to deal with a GASPEC (for natural gas trade) or a UPEC (for Uranium) is anyone's guess, but we have been taught that we neither have all the world's fuels nor can remain economically and enviornmentally healthy at today's high rates of consumption, as the hole in the Gulf taught us.

If fossil fuels are used for mining and refining uranium ore, or if fossil fuels are used when constructing the nuclear power plant, then the emissions from burning those fuels could be associated with the electricity that nuclear power plants generate.»

It is NOW that the supposed «greenhouse issues» should be removed, being unrealistic in the «inferences» they have presented to begin with, or there WILL be Uranium installed as the major backbone Peak Load generation fuel with the Metal Wire grid.

The way the IFR fuel cycle would work would be: you could start with mined uranium, or you could start with fuel for present day reactors.

All of the actinides (uranium, plutonium) can be used for fuel with molten salt reactors or some other high burn reactors.

... it appears that there exist within minable depths in the United States rocks with uranium contents equivalent to 1000 barrels or more of oil per metric ton, whose total energy content is probably several hundred times that of all the fossil fuels combined.

The core design uses uranium carbide particles that are sintered into porous fuel plates and isolated from the main helium coolant flow with a silicon carbide coating.

-- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall establish standards for protection against radiation (including occupational exposures) resulting from activities at facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process, including facilities to fabricate fuel enriched with actinide elements other than uranium.

-- The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall establish generally applicable environmental standards for the protection of the public and the general environment from radioactive material released from facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process, including facilities to fabricate fuel enriched with actinide elements other than uranium.

There is NO evidence of «human induced greenhouse global warming» and there is NO evidence at all that NATURAL climate change is even being interfered with There is NOT even viable a «greenhouse effect» as the «theory» attempts to outline, instead the «greenhouse illusion» is only disguising the path to Uranium fueled generation.

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Reprocessing also had a difficult time competing economically with new uranium fuel.

Cheap and plentiful uranium, together with the plutonium produced by uranium use, could fuel nuclear plants for the foreseeable future.

«In March 2010, Hyperion notified the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it planned to submit a design certification application in 2012... Hyperion has said it plans to build a prototype by 2015, possibly with uranium oxide fuel if the nitride is not then available.»

NRC, NUREG - 0543, «Methods for Demonstrating LWR Compliance with the EPA Uranium Fuel Cycle Standard (40 CFR Part 190),» January 1980.