Sentence examples for blending down from inspiring English sources

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

America is already blending down some of its highly enriched uranium to make it available for civilian use.

Other programs are devoted to blending down the highly enriched uranium to a diluted product unsuitable for weapons but good as reactor fuel.

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.

Paying the Russians to do the blending down faster but to store the extra reactor fuel, say the researchers, would get the job done more quickly and without flooding the civilian uranium market.The Harvard study also unfavourably compares the $1 billion or so the Bush administration spends on threat-reduction efforts in Russia with the $38 billion it allocates for homeland security.

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

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

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.

The United States continues to want to see Russian weapons material blended down where possible, and is encouraging a largely open market to allow Russian enrichment facilities built for military purposes to become part of the international market for enrichment.

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.