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。
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。
But figuring out what to do with the nuclear fuel they generate is a big issue - and one that hasn't been resolved for decades.
但是，搞清楚如何处理用过的核燃料是一个大问题，也是一个几十年来没有得到很好解决的问题。
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。
Among other problems, the document raises new questions about whether pouring water on nuclear fuel in the absence of functioning cooling systems can be sustained indefinitely.
对于那些新问题，报告质疑核电站的工作人员能否在冷却系统停止工作后持续向核燃料洒水。
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。
On Tuesday, a fire broke out in the same reactor's fuel storage pond -an area where used nuclear fuel is kept cool -causing radioactivity to be released into the atmosphere.
周二，该反应堆中用以冷却核燃料的燃料储存池发生火灾，导致放射性物质释放进入大气之中。
On Tuesday, a fire broke out in the same reactor's fuel storage pond — an area where used nuclear fuel is kept cool — causing radioactivity to be released into the atmosphere.
周二，该反应堆中用以冷却核燃料的燃料储存池发生火灾，导致放射性物质释放进入大气之中。
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。
Japan itself had a Level 4 accident in 1999, when three workers preparing fuel for a reactor at a Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion plant triggered a nuclear chain reaction, called a criticality.
日本在1999年就曾发生过一次4级核事故（又称“东海村核事故”——译注），当时在日本核燃料转换公司（Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion）的一个燃料厂内，三名正在为反应堆准备燃料的工人引发了一次链式核反应，使反应堆达到临界状态。
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。
The several dozen workers now attempting to cool the overheating nuclear fuel at the Fukushima plant face the gravest danger from radiation sickness.
几十名目前正在福岛受损核电站试图冷却过热核燃料的工作人员面临着最严重的辐射病危险。
Most of the 30 countries that use nuclear power don't build their own enrichment or reprocessing facilities, instead buying fuel for their nuclear power plants from external suppliers.
全球30个使用核能的国家中大部分没有建造他们自己的铀浓缩与后处理设施，而是从外部的供应商那里购买核原料。
In 1995, Sweden launched a project to study ways to store depleted fuel from its 10 nuclear plants.
1995年，瑞典发起了一个项目，研究如何存储来自其境内10个核电厂耗尽的燃料。
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。
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。
Like Japan, South Korea has virtually no fossil fuel resources, so nuclear power has enabled the nation to produce large amounts of electricity domestically.
和日本一样，韩国也是化石燃料稀缺国度，核能利用成为了其本土化大规模发电的唯一选择。
The nuclear fuel rods in reactors one, two and three melted down due to a failure of the cooling systems, causing damage to their containment structures.
一号、二号和三号反应堆中的核燃料棒因冷却系统失灵而熔毁，导致其围护结构遭受破坏。
Spiralling costs are already leading to consolidation in the nuclear fuel industry, so a multilateral future may not be so unlikely, says Anthony.
安东尼说，攀升的成本已经导致了核燃料工业的联合，因此多边前景也并非不可能。
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。
There will be proposals for toughened safeguards for all, to expose would-be cheats and make civilian fuel-stocks and nuclear waste more secure.
到时将会有各国加强维护的建议，披露即将欺骗的的国家并使民用燃料储存和核废料更加安全。
There will be proposals for toughened safeguards for all, to expose would-be cheats and make civilian fuel-stocks and nuclear waste more secure.
到时将会有各国加强维护的建议，披露即将欺骗的的国家并使民用燃料储存和核废料更加安全。
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