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Nuclear Fuel: The Unseen Barrier Ahead
19 Nov 2024 16:57 GMT
… conductivity, which could improve fuel performance under extreme conditions. … mandated Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) program to … length PROtect E-ATF fuel rods with both pellets and … progress is also surfacing for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) recycling. As …
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The East-West clash will fuel nuclear weapons proliferation
19 Nov 2024 13:37 GMT
… plutonium and could produce more by refining spent nuclear fuel … , that plutonium is in spent reactor fuel and would … plutonium from the 1,350 tonnes of highly radioactive spent reactor fuel … modifications to limit plutonium production capabilities.
Tehran …
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Firm to recycle spent nuclear fuel should be set up in Slovakia
11 Nov 2024 13:11 GMT
… related to the reuse of spent nuclear fuel, President Peter Pellegrini said on …
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Japan's first interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel given go-ahead
06 Nov 2024 10:43 GMT
… interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel to start operating.
The … up to 50 years spent nuclear fuel from reactors run by … The facility operator, Recyclable-Fuel Storage Company, conducted safety … final storage site for spent nuclear fuel after the 50 year …
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Japan's 1st interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel gets OK
06 Nov 2024 07:24 GMT
… an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture … interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, the country' … .
In September, 69 fuel assemblies arrived at the … The storage operator, Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co., has signed …
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The death of Karen Silkwood—and the plutonium economy
08 Nov 2024 11:47 GMT
… into 19,000 stainless steel fuel rods. At the time of … then placed into stainless-steel rods, after which the ends … 19,000 of these fuel rods were shipped back to Hanford … , suspending reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel to recover plutonium in the United States …
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Vermont nuclear decommissioning panel hears about spent fuel storage efforts
08 Nov 2024 00:42 GMT
… about federal efforts to store spent nuclear fuel.
In 1982 a federal law … to host interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. Vermont’s Decommissioning Panel invited … 90 thousand metric tons of spent nuclear fuel currently being stored at reactor …
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Robot Removes First Bit Of Fukushima's Nuclear Fuel Debris – Just 880 Tons More To Go
06 Nov 2024 18:42 GMT
… retrieve a tiny chunk of spent nuclear fuel. It’s the first time … retrieve a “small amount of fuel debris” from the floor … molten material that consists of fuel elements and also may contain … the attributes of the sampled fuel debris we will directly ascertain …
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Japan’s 1st Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility Starts Operations
06 Nov 2024 16:02 GMT
… of Japan’s first interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Aomori … confirming that the operator, Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co., had undertaken … 69 assemblies of spent fuel with 12 tons of … the fact that Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. has repeatedly extended …
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Spent N-fuel Storage Facility Begins Operation; Tons Of Fuel To Be Stored in Aomori Up To 50 Years
06 Nov 2024 12:05 GMT
… interim facility to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, … which spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed to create uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, … Power Companies of Japan, spent nuclear fuel stored at nuclear power plants …