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。

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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。

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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。

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They had been interested in thorium -- a radioactive element that can fuel nuclear reactors but not be processed into weapons.

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They plan to use the plutonium as fuel for civilian nuclear reactors.

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According to the deal, Russia will also provide India with nuclear fuel for its reactors.

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Investors had been further spooked by an explosive bubble in the uranium market, the metal used to fuel nuclear reactors.

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Instead client countries would have a guaranteed access to low enriched uranium to fuel civil nuclear reactors.

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It is building a facility in South Carolina to transform excess weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors.

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