The nuclear fuel cycle encompasses the processes involved in the production, use, and disposal of nuclear fuel. Understanding the economics and management of this cycle is crucial for the ...

The discovery of nuclear fission in the 1930s brought with it first the threat of nuclear annihilation by nuclear weapons in the ... closing the nuclear fuel cycle. From the beginning the ...

B. Fuel Regeneration Options to Support an International Nuclear Fuel Cycle.Primary Issues:1. Compare the uranium recovery by extraction plus (UREX+), the plutonium and uranium recovery by extraction ...

The BN-800 fast reactor is the only fast neutron reactor in the world generating electricity for a national grid on a sizable ...

At the same time, uranium-233, the primary fission material produced from thorium, is harder to use for weapons purposes ... Kailash Agarwal, a Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Specialist at the ...

The proposed project would require a 1 million-square-foot nuclear fuel cycle facility to be built ... of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. Now the site employs about ...

Roughly 92 pounds of weapons-grade uranium is enough to create one nuclear bomb, reported Reuters. "One can gather from the first statements from President Trump and some others in the new ...

His research focuses on the monitoring and verification of international agreements, the reconstruction of past nuclear weapon activities (nuclear archaeology), and the impact of emerging technologies ...