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Nuclear fuel processA graph comparing nucleon number against binding energyClose-up of a replica of the core of the research reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin
Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines. Heat is created when nuclear fuel undergoes nuclear fission. Nuclear fuel has the highest energy density of all practical fuel sources. The processes involved in mining, refining, purifying, using, and disposing of nuclear fuel are collectively known as the nuclear fuel cycle.
Most nuclear fuels contain heavy fissile actinide elements that are capable of undergoing and sustaining nuclear fission. The three most relevant fissile isotopes are uranium-233, uranium-235 and plutonium-239. When the unstable nuclei of these atoms are hit by a slow-moving neutron, they frequently split, creating two daughter nuclei and two or three more neutrons. In that case, the neutrons released go on to split more nuclei. This creates a self-sustaining chain reaction that is controlled in a nuclear reactor, or uncontrolled in a nuclear weapon. Alternatively, if the nucleus absorbs the neutron without splitting, it creates a heavier nucleus with one additional neutron. Not all types of nuclear fuels create power from nuclear fission; plutonium-238 and some other isotopes are used to produce small amounts of nuclear power by radioactive decay in radioisotope thermoelectric generators and other types of atomic batteries.
Nuclearfuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines. Heat is created when nuclearfuel undergoes nuclear fission...
Spent nuclearfuel, occasionally called used nuclearfuel, is nuclearfuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant)...
Nuclear reprocessing is the chemical separation of fission products and actinides from spent nuclearfuel. Originally, reprocessing was used solely to...
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion...
The nuclearfuel cycle, also called nuclearfuel chain, is the progression of nuclearfuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in...
thermal energy released from burning fossil fuels, nuclear reactors convert the energy released by controlled nuclear fission into thermal energy for further...
of heat energy, such as nuclear energy (via nuclear fission and nuclear fusion). The heat energy released by reactions of fuels can be converted into mechanical...
Onkalo spent nuclearfuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclearfuel. It is near the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant...
The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan which began on 11 March...
The NuclearFuel Complex (NFC) was established in 1971 as a major industrial unit of India's Department of Atomic Energy, as a nuclear plant also specializing...
Mixed oxide fuel, commonly referred to as MOX fuel, is nuclearfuel that contains more than one oxide of fissile material, usually consisting of plutonium...
heat generated by a nuclear reactor exceeds the heat removed by the cooling systems to the point where at least one nuclearfuel element exceeds its melting...
their operations, maintenance, and fuel costs are at the lower end of the spectrum of costs. However, building a nuclear power plant often spans five to...
A nuclearfuel bank is reserve of low enriched uranium (LEU) for countries that need a backup source of LEU to fuel their nuclear reactors. Countries...
was fueled by highly enriched uranium. Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 and ratified it in 1970, making Iran's nuclear program...
The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclearfuel cycle that uses an isotope of thorium, 232 Th , as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted...
after an experimental batch of solidified nuclear waste caught fire at the Power Reactor and NuclearFuel Development Corporation (PNC) radioactive waste...
British NuclearFuels Ltd, trading as Great British Nuclear, is a nuclear energy and fuels company owned by the UK Government. It is a non-departmental...
shielding. In nuclear reprocessing plants, about 96% of spent nuclearfuel is recycled back into uranium-based and mixed-oxide (MOX) fuels. The residual...
NuclearFuel Services Inc. (NFS) is an American company that has been a major supplier of fuel for the United States Navy's fleet of nuclear-powered vessels...
nuclear reactor, so no cargo or supplies space is taken up by fuel, nor is space taken up by exhaust stacks or combustion air intakes. The low fuel cost...
geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclearfuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States. The site...
A nuclear flask is a shipping container that is used to transport active nuclear materials between nuclear power station and spent fuel reprocessing facilities...
electricity, however, was its role in proving that a reactor could create more nuclearfuel as a byproduct than it consumed during operation. In 1953, tests verified...
reactor structures, the nuclearfuel, and the fuel cladding. [citation needed] Erosion is also a concern, especially the loss of fuel and associated releases...
development and testing of new reactor fuel, materials, etc. It also researches spent fuel processing and safe disposal of nuclear waste. Its other research focus...
challenging environments. The nuclearfuel source for the majority of the designs is "High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium", or HALEU. Nuclear microreactors originated...
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