Sentence examples for spent uranium from inspiring English sources

The Finns are to bury their highly radioactive spent uranium fuel.

Almost 3,000 spent uranium fuel rods are stored at the Tsuruga plant, while the Monju site stores plutonium fuel.

Startup companies working on using spent uranium fuel include the Bill GaTerraPoweraserraPowells well as Transatomic and Terrestrial Energy.

The blazes triggered fears that spent uranium fuel sitting in a pool above the reactor was burning.

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

Spraying water on storage pools full of overheating spent uranium fuel rods is not very effective because rising steam dissipates much of the incoming water.

The plant, which has not yet opened because of various problems, is the cornerstone of a Japanese project to reprocess spent uranium-based fuel and make the country self-sufficient in nuclear energy.

However, an even more important part of the agreement for the United States completely closes off a second route to the bomb--reprocessing spent uranium-238 fuel to make plutonium.

Because I is not commonly analyzed at very low concentrations, it is expected that other sites that processed spent fuels, uranium targets, or other sources of uranium that underwent fission, may have elevated I concentrations in their sediments and ground-water.

For example, veterans were not asked simply if they had been exposed to depleted uranium (which many were unlikely to have known) but if they had contact with destroyed enemy vehicles, an experience required for nearly all personnel directly exposed to spent depleted uranium.

The uranium fuel can be natural uranium, LWR spent fuel, or depleted uranium.