Sentence examples for enriched fuel from inspiring English sources

The Materials Management and Minimization program is developing fuel designs to replace highly enriched fuel with fuels of low enrichment.

Normally, weapons are made with at least 90 percent enriched fuel.

A weapon made with 20percentt enriched fuel would be unwieldy compared with one made from 80percentt or 90percentt enriched fuel — what experts often call weapons grade.

Under the proposal, the uranium would be shipped to France and Russia in exchange for more highly enriched fuel rods that are not suitable for use in weapons.

Iran began producing 20 percent enriched fuel more than a year ago for what it said was the purpose of fueling a research reactor in Tehran.

But when details were worked out in the spring, one result was the acceleration of a program to retrieve highly enriched fuel from a widespread network of research reactors once connected to the Soviet Union.

Iran has installed 17,000 centrifuges and now has enough low- and medium-enriched fuel to produce a half dozen weapons, with further enrichment.

Iran had revealed its existence to the IAEA days earlier, but western officials say that was because it knew it had been discovered October 2009 An apparent breakthrough at a meeting in Geneva, in which Iran agreed to export 1,200kg of its low-enrichment uranium, 75% of the total, in return for foreign-made, 20%-enriched fuel rods for the Tehran Research Reactor TRRResearch Reactor TRR

But Mr. Obama does not want to say the obvious: that he is willing to allow Iran to hold onto some face-saving enrichment capability as long as it does not retain its stockpiles of medium-enriched fuel, which can be converted to bomb-grade.

Power reactors in this country use uranium fuel in which the proportion of U-235 has been raised to 3to5percentent, which is low-enriched fuel.

In the new deal, it keeps all its LEU and just gives up its 150 kg or so of 20%-enriched fuel.