A federal ruling has paved the way for a half ton of former Soviet bomb-grade uranium to be moved from storage in Oak Ridge to a reprocessing facility in Virginia for conversion into nuclear reactor fuel.
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Reports in Canada said the country is interested in a yet theoretical plan to use plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads as nuclear reactor fuel, as the Canadian-made Candu reactors appear well-suited for the project.
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Any number of North Korean actions could represent escalation of North Korea's nuclear program, including proof that North Korea has reprocessed spent nuclear reactor fuel into weapons-grade plutonium, a senior Bush administration official said.
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The neptunium carbides NpC, Np 2 C 3, and NpC 2 ( tentative ) have been reported, but have not characterized in detail despite the high importance and utility of actinide carbides as advanced nuclear reactor fuel.
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On top will sit 16-foot tall, concrete-and-steel casks filled with radioactive rods _ as many as 4, 000 of them holding 40, 000 metric tons of used-up nuclear reactor fuel.
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These will be located at the site until the U . S . Department of Energy completes a permanent storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and the spent fuel stored at Rowe can be transferred to such a future federal facility.
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The United States, which had given up recovering plutonium from spent nuclear reactor fuel and had urged Russia, Japan and others to do the same to help curb the spread of nuclear weapons, is about to resume the practice on a small scale.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn . ( AP ) _ A federal ruling has paved the way for a half ton of former Soviet bomb-grade uranium to be moved from storage in Oak Ridge to a reprocessing facility in Virginia for conversion into nuclear reactor fuel.
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Jane's noted, however, that if India's reactor-grade plutonium, which is not under international safeguards, is separated from spent nuclear reactor fuel, " it can be converted into 243 atomic bombs very quickly ."
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Production activities at the Erwin facility include preparing enriched uranium to be processed into nuclear reactor fuel, processing uranium hexafluoride into other uranium compounds, and downblending high-enriched uranium to convert it to a low-enriched form for use in commercial nuclear reactors.
