Investors had been further spooked by an explosive bubble in the uranium market, the metal used to fuel nuclear reactors.
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.
It houses lines of centrifuges which spin uranium gas at a thousand revolutions a second to make fuel for nuclear reactors.
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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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 has a nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. dating back to the 1980s that allows Tokyo to reprocess the spent fuel from its nuclear reactors.
Rare earth (RE) metals find application in a massive range of devices including wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers.
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The House and Senate passed bills (HR1270, S104) in 1997 requiring the Energy Department to build a temporary storage site for spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.
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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What they failed to appreciate, and what the company failed to tell them, was that a fast-breeder uses fuel that has a 19% concentration of the fissile isotope of uranium, 235U. Ordinary nuclear reactors use fuel containing around 3% of the fissile isotope.
The U.S. has supported a Russian proposal to provide Iran with nuclear fuel for civilian reactors as long as the spent fuel is then sent back to Russia.
Mining the moon for fuel used in nuclear fusion reactors is among NASA's 200-plus set of mission goals and could precipitate another reason for other countries and private investors to join future lunar exploration.
Last week a Federal court shot down the long-exercised argument that the Department of Energy (DOE) uses in defense of lawsuits leveled against it for not taking control and disposing of spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors ( Court rejects DOE).
They could run longer on the same nuclear fuel, and additional reactors could be added in a "plug and play" fashion, said Paul Genoa of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's trade association.
The company mines uranium, makes nuclear fuel, designs and builds reactors and reprocesses spent fuel.
That reluctant admission sparked the latest nuclear crisis and ended a 1994 agreement with America that aimed to swap the eventual building of two western-designed nuclear reactors and interim deliveries of fuel oil for a halt to, and the eventual dismantling of, North Korea's plutonium making.
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The world's third-largest economy has seen a rise in fuel imports, as most of Japan's nuclear reactors continue to remain closed.
KEDO, the organisation responsible for building two nuclear reactors and making interim deliveries of fuel oil in return for a freeze on the North's production of plutonium, from which nuclear bombs can be made.
This unique feature enables LFTRs to consume their fuel so thoroughly that they can even use the spent fuel from other reactors, cleaning up our legacy of nuclear waste while producing a minuscule amount of waste themselves.
This week's accord could result in little more than a return to a 1994 pact between America and North Korea, by which North Korea froze its operations at Yongbyon in return for fuel oil shipments and an agreement eventually to provide replacement nuclear reactors that could less easily be used to make weapons material.
In 1994, North Korea agreed to stop making plutonium, in return for which America and its allies would supply the country with fuel oil and build two Western-designed light-water nuclear reactors (since it is a bit harder to produce weapons-grade materials from such reactors than from the ones North Korea had been building).
This month, the International Atomic Energy Agency will discuss a proposal, embraced by U.S. President Barack Obama, to set up "nuclear-fuel banks, " where countries could acquire fuel for reactors without creating enrichment programs of their own.
That would not bode well for Japan, not least because the country has seen its fuel imports rise in recent times, after almost all of its nuclear reactors were shut in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Second, nuclear reactors can only be run above maximum capacity for a short period before they begin experiencing complications, so each region maintains backup facilities to burn fuel oil or natural gas at peak periods or for when the nuclear reactors are offline.
Since the March 11 earthquake that ravaged northern Japan, workers at Fukushima Daiichi have been struggling to cool down three overheated reactors and keep pools of spent but still potent nuclear fuel from spreading further radioactive contamination across northern Japan.
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