Sentence examples for spent oxide from inspiring English sources

The fluorination experiments were realized in the first instance with pure uranium oxide fuel and later on with simulated spent oxide fuel.

A two-pronged approach for completion by 2020 could progress by a detailed design and demonstration of a 100 t/year pyroprocessing facility for conversion of spent oxide fuel from light-water reactors3 into metal fuel for fast reactors, followed by construction of a prototype PRISM as a commercial-scale demonstration plant, with an initial focus on secure disposition of separated plutonium stocks.

The application of the cold crucible technique to a pyrochemical electrolyzer used in the oxide-electrowinning method, which is a method for the pyrochemical reprocessing of spent nuclear oxide fuel, is proposed as a means for improving corrosion resistance.

Radioactive iodine is the Achilles' heel in the design for the safe geological disposal of spent uranium oxide (UO2) nuclear fuel.

Because of their non-fertile matrices, inert matrix fuels (IMF's) could be an ideal vehicle for using light-water reactors to help decrease the inventory of plutonium and other transuranics (neptunium, americium, curium) that are contained within spent uranium oxide fuel (UOX).

But Ms. Lauvergeon highlights Areva's experience in converting spent fuel into mixed oxide, or MOX, pellets that can be burned in nuclear reactors.

In this study, the possibilities of fissile fuel breeding (FFB) and incineration of curium oxide discharged from spent fuel of pressured water reactor (PWR) have been investigated in the FFHR.

Since 1977 the TVA has spent $3 billion on reducing nitrogen-oxide and sulphur-dioxide emissions, and plans to spend $2.6 billion more by the end of 2010.

The reprocessing actinide materials extracted from spent fuel for use in mixed oxide fuels is a key component in maximizing the spent fuel repository utility.

XPS analysis indicated that Ru species was in Ru0 metal state, while Re species was mostly in Re oxide state in the spent Ru Re/SiO2 sample.

While Mr. Deutsch swears by nitric oxide and creatine, Mr. Feintuch, who spent $1,000 to refine his supplement regimen, doesn't take either one.