reactor fuel
reactor fuel
[rē′ak·tər ‚fyül] (nucleonics)
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Iran has also admitted breaching restrictions on its production of enriched uranium, used to make reactor fuel but also potentially nuclear bombs.
He said that raising the level of enrichment has two advantages, one that it produces fuel for its power plants, or its research reactor, and two the pace of action will increase if they want to produce higher fuel, like Tehran reactor fuel. //Petra// RZ 07/07/2019 13:12:34
The reactor fuel used in both a commercial nuclear power plant and a residential application being considered would use non-weapons-grade-level fuel, which is diluted.
BWX Technologies announced that its Nuclear Fuel Services subsidiary was awarded a contract valued at $505M for the downblending of 20.2 metric tons of highly enriched uranium to produce low enriched uranium suitable for use as commercial nuclear reactor fuel and for national defense programs.
Since for normal operating conditions including variable loading modes the synergic method for control of nuclear fuel properties (CET-method) allows us to minimize the radioactive leakage through fuel claddings into a VVER circuit simultaneously with optimization of fuel operation parameters, an automated system for control of VVER-1000 reactor fuel properties ensuring the fuel operation safety-efficiency balance can be developed based on the CET-method.
The Strickler plant was decommissioned in 1972 after it fulfilled its research mission: producing electricity while yielding plutonium for reprocessing into future reactor fuel and for weapons.
Such power plants could be designed and built by British firms and can use plutonium and spent boiling water reactor fuel which helps with nuclear waste disposal, as well as potentially being much cheaper.
The LEU would be made available to member states of the IAEA for peaceful nuclear reactor fuel if they could not obtain LEU on the global commercial market, it said.
It is noteworthy, that the concentration of U-235 found in any reactor fuel is minute and extremely dilute therefore, the possibility of nuclear reactor explosion is void.
Since its launch in 2002, the Tripartite (IAEA-USA-Russian Federation) Initiative, known as the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Programme, has facilitated the transfer of more than 2100 kilograms of Soviet-supplied HEU to Russia from 14 countries in 58 shipment operations.
Tehran says it needs to expand enrichment to make reactor fuel but the US fears Tehran could move toward making nuclear missiles.
USEC, one of three major reactor fuel providers in the U.S., handled all of the Megatons to Megawatts uranium.
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