Sentence examples for blended down from inspiring English sources

That could be blended down into low enriched uranium to fabricate fuel rods to power nuclear reactors.

One of its continuing sources of profit has been its role in handling Russian military uranium, blended down and shipped to the United States.

The uranium, which is blended down and sold as reactor-grade fuel for power production, meets about half of America's nuclear power fuel requirements.

It would also not be allowed to increase its stockpile of 3.5%-enriched uranium, so any that is produced during the six months of the interim agreement would have to be blended down or converted to oxide.

And cleaning uncovered a superb image of a smiling woman's face topped by a pretty headdress, with layers upon layers of paint blended down by time to an algaelike mélange of yellows, greens and pinks.

Meanwhile, under a separate, accelerated deal due for completion in 2013, about half of 500 tons of Russia's surplus HEU (enough for 30,000 weapons) has already been blended down for safer commercial use.Yet not all is going swimmingly with other projects in Russia.

USEC meets more than half of United States demand by blending down Russian bomb uranium.

The timetable for blending down bomb uranium is too slow and the science centers are severely underfinanced.

Fabius also said Iran is being asked to blend down "a great part of this stock at 20 per cent, to five per cent".

It would be a simple matter for the United States and/or the international community to advance Russia the much smaller amount of money required to blend down the remaining 350 tons (and perhaps another 700 tons not included in this deal) enough to render it unusable for nuclear weaponry.

The announcement in this distant industrial outpost on the Kazakh steppe was made as Kazakhstan's national atomic company, Kazatomprom, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an American nonprofit organization, neared the completion of blending down roughly 6,600 pounds of highly enriched uranium to a different form that is suitable for civilian use but is not weapons-grade.