Investors had been further spooked by an explosive bubble in the uranium market, the metal used to fuel nuclear reactors.
That material has been used to fuel nuclear plants.
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And the Russians said, well all right, if the Iranians want to possess the whole, what's called the nuclear fuel cycle, that is, to have a guaranteed stream of nuclear fuel for power plants, which involves enriching uranium, we'll do it in conjunction with Iran, but in Russia.
The Fukushima disaster along with the need to find a home for used nuclear fuel is pushing the Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to better their emergency responses in case of radiation leaks.
Instead client countries would have a guaranteed access to low enriched uranium to fuel civil nuclear reactors.
It is building a facility in South Carolina to transform excess weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors.
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It houses lines of centrifuges which spin uranium gas at a thousand revolutions a second to make fuel for nuclear reactors.
The moon contains large concentrations of helium-3, a nonradioactive isotope that's rare on Earth but could be an incredibly valuable fuel for nuclear fusion.
Wall Street, health insurance and drug companies, fossil fuel and nuclear power companies, and defense corporations have been hard at work defeating common-sense reforms that would make them more accountable.
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But the Moon is a source of rare earth elements, as well as Helium-3, a possible future fuel for nuclear fusion reactors (if we ever actually invent them).
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In China, the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and a clutch of Chinese outfits began an effort in mid-2009 to use thorium as fuel in nuclear reactors in Qinshan, China.
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Inefficient energy use is what's bad for the economy, as is the collateral damage in terms of pollution, erosion of water resources, and international security that accompanies old-school fossil fuel and nuclear solutions on the supply side.
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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On April 5th in Prague, Mr Obama reiterated a campaign promise to hold talks with Russia to reduce both American and Russian nuclear stockpiles, to push for a global nuclear test ban and to set up an international nuclear fuel bank to help with peaceful nuclear-energy programmes.
Creating international nuclear fuel banks and shared management of enrichment, reprocessing and spent fuel storage facilities would make nonproliferation sense as well as supporting civil nuclear power in energy-thirsty Asia.
Japan Nuclear Fuel's Mr. Fukushi stressed that the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, will closely monitor Rokkasho's operation to guard against potential diversion of the weapons-usable plutonium.
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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Japan's government is consulting with experts from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the French nuclear fuel company Areva, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the agency's chief spokesman.
Thus, it reasonably bars the export of HEU for use as reactor fuel or as targets to produce medical isotopes except on an interim basis to recipients who provide assurances that an alternative nuclear fuel or target will be used in their facilities whenever possible.
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EU's foreign-policy chief, are still working on a deal to persuade the Iranians voluntarily to abandon their ambitions to develop nuclear-fuel technologies that could also enable them to build nuclear weapons.
The company mines uranium, makes nuclear fuel, designs and builds reactors and reprocesses spent fuel.
Greenpeace activists tried, and failed, to stop a ship carrying reprocessed nuclear fuel through the Panama Canal .
Before the meeting, Larijani repeated Tehran's rejection of Russia's main condition, a moratorium on Iran's own nuclear fuel production.
In 2009 President Nursultan Nazarbayev offered to host a nuclear fuel bank under the International Atomic Energy Agency's jurisdiction.
The UK government is preparing to sell its one-third stake in Urenco, the world's second-largest provider of nuclear fuel.
Thorium can be used as a nuclear fuel through breeding to fissile uranium-233.
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Iranian negotiators are due to arrive in Moscow tomorrow for discussions about moving Tehran's nuclear fuel production to Russia.
Ceradyne also sells neutron-absorbing materials that can be used for nuclear fuel storage.
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