Sentence examples for irradiated plutonium from inspiring English sources

This discovery was part of a program, begun in 1952, that irradiated plutonium with neutrons to transmute it into heavier actinides.

In recognition of the proliferation risks from surplus irradiated plutonium, the U.S. Department of Energy DOEE) signed a contract in 1999 with a consortium of corporate partners including Duke Energy to design and operate a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility.

In 1944, Seaborg decided to extend the search to higher atomic numbers, asking chemists Ralph A. James and Leon O. Morgan to irradiate plutonium and send the samples to Chicago for Ghiorso to analyze.

"Given that North Korea will likely need two-three years before it discharges irradiated fuel containing plutonium and another six to 12 months to separate the plutonium, there remains time to negotiate a shutdown of the reactor before North Korea can use any of this new plutonium in nuclear weapons," it said in a report.

The swelling damaged the charging tubes where the uranium was irradiated to produce plutonium, rendering them unusable.

Accidental neutron capture causes the amount of plutonium-242 and 240 to grow each time the plutonium is irradiated in a reactor with low-speed "thermal" neutrons, so that after the second cycle, the plutonium can only be consumed by fast neutron reactors.

Mixed-oxide test capsules prepared with weapons-derived plutonium have been irradiated to a burnup of 50 GWd/MT.

As soon as the fuel is irradiated it will begin to produce plutonium that could be used in an atomic weapon, and for this reason Russia has insisted on the spent fuel's return as a condition for completing and fueling the plant.

The experiment used the same 6.2 kg plutonium core that had irradiated Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., later called the "demon core" for its role in the two accidents.

An important of use of 237Np is as a precursor in plutonium production, where it is irradiated with neutrons to create 238Pu, an alpha emitter for radioisotope thermal generators for spacecraft and military applications.

The design consideration of depleted U and Am (DU-Am) oxide fuel pin was performed for Pu denaturing in the framework of the protected plutonium production based on the irradiation analyses of the DU samples irradiated in the environment of broad range of neutron energy in the experimental fast reactor Joyo.