Uranium is used to fuel nuclear plants.
铀用作核电厂的燃料。
They had been interested in thorium — a radioactive element that can fuel nuclear reactors but not be processed into weapons.
他们当时对一种放射性元素钍很感兴趣，这种元素能驱动核反应堆，却不能制造生产成武器。
Nuclear energy may overtake oil as the main fuel.
核能可能会超过石油成为主要燃料。
When nuclear fuel is manufactured it is encased in metal cans.
核燃料生产出来时被装在金属罐中。
Scientists have long sought easier ways to make the costly material known as enriched uranium - the fuel of nuclear reactors and bombs, now produced only in giant industrial plants.
科学家一直在寻找更简单的方法制造名为浓缩铀的昂贵材料- - - - - -核反应堆和炸弹的燃料，现在只在大型工厂生产。
But stars like our sun swell into bloated red giants when the nuclear fuel in their cores is depleted.
但是，像太阳这样的恒星，当核心的核燃料耗尽时，就会发生膨胀，成为胀大的红巨星。
But there are remaining issues from that pact, including parameters for India's reprocessing of nuclear fuel that originates in the United States.
尽管如此，在美印核协议中还有许多问题，其中包括，让印度重新加工来自美国核燃料的参量。
The nuclear deal will allow American companies to sell nuclear fuel, reactors and technology to India.
这项核协定允许美国公司向印度出售核燃料、核反应堆与核技术。
That programme was about “weaponisation”: the fiddly business of making a device that can set off a chain reaction in nuclear fuel.
该计划致力于武器化：虽然制造在核原料中引发链式反应的设备是一件高精细度的工作。
Given the large quantity of irradiated nuclear fuel in the pool, the radioactivity release could be worse than the Chernobyl nuclear reactor catastrophe of 25 years ago.
由于池中有大量的辐照核燃料，放射性释放可能比25年前的切尔诺贝利核反应堆灾难更糟。
The transportation and long-term disposal of nuclear fuel is remains a concern for nuclear plants.
对于核电站来说运输与长期核燃料的处理仍然是一个令人关注的问题。
The hard part is the production of nuclear fuel.
核项目中技术难题是生产核反应堆的燃料。
One focus was to prospect the lunar surface for natural resources, including uranium for nuclear fuel.
它的最主要任务是勘察月球表面的自然资源，包括可以用于核然料的铀。
A large leak of underground carbon dioxide could be as dangerous as a leak of nuclear fuel, critics say.
批评人士说，地下一次大的二氧化碳泄漏就像核燃料泄漏一样危险。
Once electricity is lost, the irradiated nuclear fuel could begin to melt down.
一旦电力用完，辐照核燃料会逐渐融化。
As nuclear cores melt down, reacting nuclear fuel creates many different radioactive elements, all with different toxic effects.
当核反应堆的核心融化的时候，相互作用的核燃料会产生许多不同的放射性元素，他们的毒性各不相同。
The conduit poses potential competition to Russia, a country on which Armenia remains highly reliant, for everything from nuclear fuel to grain.
这条管道对俄罗斯，这个亚美尼亚从核燃料到谷物都高度依赖的国家，造成了潜在的竞争。
Some elements such as uranium, commonly used as fuel in nuclear power plants, are always radioactive; there is no nonradioactive form of them that naturally occurs in nature.
一些如铀一般的元素，通常在核电厂用作核燃料，都是有放射性的；这些元素由于自身的性质是没有无放射性状态的。
Because we are running out of fossil fuel, and nuclear energy has its problems.
因为我们就要用光矿物燃料了，而核能又有它的问题。
White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used as nuclear fuel.
而白矮星则是将其曾用作核燃料的所有氢原子都燃烧殆尽的恒星。
India is also insisting that it be given the explicit right to reprocess nuclear fuel - again, in contradiction of the US law.
印度还坚称，自己应获得再加工核燃料的明确权利——再次与美国通过的这份协议相矛盾。
For about 10 percent of electricity in the United States, it's fuel from dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones.
在美国大约有10%的电力，它们的燃料来自拆除的核弹，有的属于俄罗斯。
In addition to the reactor cores, the storage pool for highly radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel is also at risk.
除了反应堆堆芯，用来储存辐射性极强的辐照核燃料的贮存池也很危险。
Q: Iran said it had signed a nuclear fuel swap deal with Turkey and Brazil.
问：伊朗方面表示，日前已经与土耳其、巴西达成核燃料交换协议。
Without cooling water, the irradiated nuclear fuel could spontaneously combust in an exothermic reaction.
没有冷水，辐照性核燃料就会在放热反应发生的同时燃烧。
Without cooling water, the irradiated nuclear fuel could spontaneously combust in an exothermic reaction.
没有冷水，辐照性核燃料就会在放热反应发生的同时燃烧。
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