The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona was designed for 100 % MOX core compatibility but so far have always operated on fresh low enriched uranium.
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The "'Radioisotope Production Facility "'( RPF ), is a facility for the production of radioisotopes from irradiation of Low enriched uranium ( LEU ) in the ETRR-2 reactor.
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This was a large site still in the installation stage, although some production units had begun operation and a small quantity of low enriched uranium had been produced.
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After 1992, roughly 2 tons of natural uranium, or yellow cake, some low enriched uranium and some depleted uranium was left at Tuwaitha under IAEA seal and control, he said.
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For low enriched uranium fuel working on a thermal neutron spectrum, the difference between the average and effective delayed neutron fractions can reach 50 pcm ( 1 pcm = 1e-5 ).
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In 1993 focus shifted to commercial operations and over the following years typical output in creased back to 20MW . Since 2009 the reactor has operated solely on low enriched uranium fuel.
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ElBaradei's letter said that an unspecified amount of nuclear material still at Tuwaitha consists mainly of natural uranium, some depleted uranium and some low enriched uranium waste, which is subject to IAEA monitoring.
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The order frees Russia to resume shipping low enriched uranium that has been blended down after being taken from nuclear weapons stockpiles, so it can be used in U . S . commercial reactors.
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Clinton's order freed Russia to resume shipping low enriched uranium that has been " downblended " after being taken from nuclear weapons stockpiles, so it can be used in U . S . commercial reactors.
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However the country agreed in 2012 to downgrade the high enriched uranium used on its nuclear power plants to low enriched uranium, the process was realised with the assistance of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
