plutonium造句

Mixed oxide fuel rods are partly made of plutonium. These fuel rods are partly exposed.

This will eventually allow India to extract plutonium from spent reactor fuel of American origin.

But a more dangerous material, plutonium, has also been found in soil near the power plant.

Japan has had similar discrepancies at a plant that blends plutonium with uranium to make mixed-oxide fuel.

If you wanna just take a quick look at a breeder reactor, we have either mixed oxide or plutonium oxide. There's a blanket region in which you can make plutonium using uranium 238.

This mixture of plutonium and other radioactive elements couldthen be turned into fuel suitable for use in “fast” reactors.

New types of reactors were designed, including the Fast Breeder reactor powered by plutonium and cooled by liquid sodium.

A plan to transport 44 tonnes of radioactive uranium and plutonium by train has run into opposition from councils worried about accidents and terrorist attacks.

The best part is that the process can power itself -- plutonium releases energy as it destroyed by fission, and that energy can power the burner.

India has since designated some of its reactors as civilian, and open to inspection, but others still churn out spent fuel richly laden with weapons-usable plutonium.

a highly fissionable isotope of plutonium that is used in atomic weapons and as a reactor fuel; produced by irradiating uranium 238 with slow electrons.

When nuclear plants were designed, says Wald, regulators anticipated that spent fuel rods would sit in cooling water pools for five years and then be chemically processed and turned into plutonium.

All the more important, then, to keep a close eye on plants that produce quantities of such dangerous materials-especially where uranium is enriched and plutonium is extracted from spent fuel.

One crucial argument for the new program took a major hit in November when the Jason— a prestigious panel of scientists that advises the government on weapons— reported that most of the plutonium triggers in the current arsenal can be expected to last for100 years.