These include the uninterrupted supply of foreign uranium fuel and help in building up a strategic fuel reserve.
It has suspended plans to ship uranium fuel for the reactor, ostensibly because of late payments by Iran.
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We are continuing research on the feasibility of converting research reactors in the United States and Russia to low-enriched uranium fuel.
HEU. The Americans have helped recover unused uranium fuel from Kazakhstan, Georgia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Libya, Uzbekistan, the Czech Republic and Latvia.
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Now that it can import uranium fuel for its civilian reactors, it can devote more of its scarce domestic supplies to bomb-making.
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Congress may not have noticed, but American officials have been coaching India in avoidance tactics: buy your uranium fuel from others, not us, they suggest, and you're in the clear.
The prototype light-water reactor that North Korea is constructing at Yongbyon, and which requires enriched-uranium fuel, could add to the fissile material stockpile when it is completed, possibly by the end of the year.
Ore from the mine is processed at Jaduguda into a substance called U308 - commonly known as yellow cake - and then sent to the Nuclear Fuel Complex in the southern city of Hyderabad, where uranium fuel rods are produced.
Further, the uranium to fuel those reactors is plentiful while the environmental impact is relatively benign.
Instead client countries would have a guaranteed access to low enriched uranium to fuel civil nuclear reactors.
Iran's government has said it needs the purer form of enriched uranium to fuel its research reactor in Tehran.
Subsequently, France would convert the uranium into fuel rods for use in a reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes.
When Hecker was shown a 2, 000-centrifuge plant in November 2010, he could not tell if it was operating at all, let alone producing low-enriched uranium for fuel purposes, as claimed.
So, they essentially proposed building a new facility for uranium enrichment in Russia with Iranian management, Iranian financial participation, that would be devoted exclusively to producing highly enriched uranium nuclear fuel for the Iranians.
The fuel, called MOX, takes uranium from spent fuel rods and mixes it with plutonium, creating a less stable fuel, one that is potentially far more dangerous in a meltdown.
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It recently confirmed it had resumed the conversion of medium enriched uranium into oxide fuel to slow down growth of its stockpile.
In November 2010, North Korea showed U.S. scientist Siegfried Hecker that it was making progress in developing the skill to use uranium as a fuel for nuclear weapons.
The list of states in Asia who are engaged in mining Uranium as well Uranium enrichment and fuel fabrication closely aligns with the list of states reporting Stuxnet infections.
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Iran insists it will enrich its own uranium, for fuel for (as yet unbuilt) power reactors, even though almost everyone else suspects it of wanting to use the same technology for bomb-making.
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent, Jonathan Marcus, says the exploitation of these mines underscores Tehran's determination to master and operate the full scope of the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium extraction, processing, enrichment and ultimately the manufacture of nuclear fuel.
So far, Tehran has not restarted work on the most sensitive part of the nuclear fuel cycle, uranium enrichment a process that can be used to make either fuel for reactors or nuclear warheads.
The company mines uranium, makes nuclear fuel, designs and builds reactors and reprocesses spent fuel.
And France agreed to transform the higher-enriched uranium into metallic nuclear fuel.
The HEU Agreements provide for the conversion of approximately 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium contained in Russian nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium for use as fuel in commercial nuclear reactors.
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They give a clue as to whether the facility was making nuclear fuel or something more sinister. 10.10.38 Music 10.10.39 Paul Kenyon For fuel the uranium must be enriched to around five percent.
The idea was for Iran to ship 1, 200kg of its low-enriched uranium overseas to produce fuel for a research reactor, thus leaving the country for a while with too small a stockpile with which to make a bomb.
U.S. and United Nations officials have documented what they describe as serious limitations in Iran's ability to quickly and efficiently produce the enriched uranium required to either fuel a nuclear power reactor or to build an atomic weapon.
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In 2010, North Korea revealed progress in turning enriched uranium into a source of fuel for nuclear weapons, further aggravating other countries.
Tokyo's ability to both enrich uranium and reprocess spent reactor fuel has allowed it to amass roughly nine tons of weapons-usable plutonium on its soil.
It has its hands in every part of the nuclear industry, from uranium mining to enrichment to fuel fabrication to reactor design and construction to maintenance and refueling to reprocessing and recycling.
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