noun
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enriched
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Some 25 pounds of enriched uranium were apparently salvaged from Osirak.
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The reactor has been redesigned to run on low enriched uranium and its capacity upgraded from 5 to 10 megawatts.
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Most of the world's nuclear reactors are termed thermal reactors and are fuelled by natural or enriched uranium .
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enrichment
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The move is needed to secure profitability which has fallen due to world-wide over capacity in uranium enrichment .
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But the size of the buildings suggests that uranium enrichment at Dimona is carried out on a relatively small scale.
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Over the same period, research on advanced nuclear reactors will be eliminated and one of the two uranium enrichment plants closed.
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Both also banned the development of nuclear reprocessing and uranium enrichment facilities.
fuel
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Harmful quantities of radiation are also released both before and after the uranium fuel enters the power station.
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Early in 1995, six more pounds of uranium fuel turned up 1, 500 miles away in Czechoslovakia.
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Alongside the other strategic arguments in its favour, the economics of the uranium fuel cycle had been taken for granted.
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Bailey emphasized that officials do not want to rupture any of the 236 uranium fuel rods in the lone remaining assembly.
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A large nuclear reactor will contain hundreds, if not thousands of rods filled with uranium fuel .
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In a power the uranium fuel is normally stacked in disks and contained in fuel rods.
mine
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In the uranium mines , workers breathe in radioactive dust as they dig out the metal ore which contains the valuable element.
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The government intends to publish a plan by the end of April for closing down all of the country's uranium mines .
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The fuel for the plants came from several uranium mines located around the country.
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The left's only significant victory came when delegates voted to reject any expansion of the current limit of three uranium mines .
miner
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The applicability of such data derived from uranium miners to the general population is central to the radon issue.
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Can data on radon exposure and cancer risks in uranium miners be applied to the general population?
mining
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Donegal in December 1979 but the story of uranium mining actually begins three years further back.
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During the campaign against uranium mining , the legitimacy of the central state was constantly challenged.
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contain
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Defence minister Rudolf Scharping is under pressure over the use of weapons containing depleted uranium in the Balkans.
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It is located throughout the grains of minerals that contain traces of uranium and thorium, not on grain surfaces.
deplete
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As with most weapons, depleted uranium is not as deadly as its proponents-or its critics-claim.
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Researchers, however, are less concerned about radioactivity than the toxic nature of depleted uranium , a heavy metal.
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And it may be that depleted uranium can, after all, be shown to be benign.
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The Royal Society is also conducting research on the effect of depleted uranium on health.
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The company manufactures shells tipped with depleted uranium , which have been linked to leukaemia and other cancers.
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Defence minister Rudolf Scharping is under pressure over the use of weapons containing depleted uranium in the Balkans.
enrich
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As little as 55 pounds of highly enriched uranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device.
use
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This technique has been used for uranium , copper, fluorine and other relatively soluble elements.
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Radon has been used to detect uranium mineralisation and also to locate faults which may control mineral deposition.
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Among the refractory materials found in the lunar samples are refractory compounds of uranium and thorium.
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First, the breakup of the Soviet Union has created a situation without accountability for warheads, missiles and uranium .
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For example, if groundwater solutions had dissolved some of the lead produced by uranium decay, the age would be underestimated.
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It is located throughout the grains of minerals that contain traces of uranium and thorium, not on grain surfaces.
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Radon comes from the uranium that occurs naturally in the ground.
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The government intends to publish a plan by the end of April for closing down all of the country's uranium mines.
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The mass of uranium soon becomes so hot that it melts and disperses, a phenomenon called meltdown.