• Mixed oxide fuel, commonly referred to as MOX fuel, is nuclear fuel that contains more than one oxide of fissile material, usually consisting of plutonium...
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    oxide fuel (MOX) for thermal reactors. Reprocessing ceased on 17 July 2022, when the Magnox Reprocessing Plant completed its last batch of fuel after...
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    spent fuel by a chemical process). The presence of 233U will affect the long-term radioactive decay of the spent fuel. If compared with MOX fuel, the activity...
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    essential component in nuclear weapons. The United States' only mixed oxide fuel (MOX) manufacturing plant was being constructed at SRS, but construction was...
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  • surplus warhead pits into MOX fuel, the majority of gallium has to be removed as its high content could interfere with the fuel rod cladding (gallium attacks...
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    Fuel Fabrication Facility has fabricated MOX fuels on experimental basis for BWR, PHWR, FBTR and research reactors. It makes plutonium-based MOX fuel...
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    low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel is mixed oxide (MOX) fuel produced by blending plutonium with natural or depleted uranium, and these fuels provide an avenue to...
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    Reprocessing of commercial nuclear fuel to make MOX was done in the Sellafield MOX Plant (England). As of 2015, MOX fuel is made in France (see Marcoule...
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    into MOX nuclear fuel for thermal reactors. The reprocessed uranium, also known as the spent fuel material, can in principle also be re-used as fuel, but...
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    being a preferred form for applications such as nuclear fission reactor fuel (MOX-fuel). Alpha decay, the release of a high-energy helium nucleus, is the most...
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  • Mox or MOX may refer to: Mox-Linde Gases, a Malaysian manufacturer of industrial gases Mixed oxide fuel, used in nuclear power plants Power Nine § Moxes...
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    uraninite. It is used in nuclear fuel rods in nuclear reactors. A mixture of uranium and plutonium dioxides is used as MOX fuel. Prior to 1960, it was used...
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    - can be fueled with MOX-fuel and/or the Russian Remix Fuel (which has a lower 239 Pu and a higher 235 U content than "regular" U/Pu MOX-fuel) allowing...
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    into mixed oxide fuels and transmuted in standard reactors. However, this is limited by the accumulation of plutonium-240 in spent MOX fuel, which is neither...
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    reprocessing plants about 96% of spent nuclear fuel is recycled back into uranium-based and mixed-oxide (MOX) fuels. The residual 4% is minor actinides and fission...
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  • fuel standard," which is mixed with other more radioactive products within spent fuel. US president Barack Obama canceled construction of the US MOX fuel...
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  • utilization (MOX) with 16 to 18 of the nuclear reactors operating in Japan. In late October 2010, work formally got under way on a 130 tonne/year J-MOX fuel fabrication...
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    manufacturer of nuclear fuel (notably MOX), ran reactors, generated and sold electricity, reprocessed and managed spent fuel (mainly at Sellafield), and...
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    numbers of fuel assemblies: In September 2010, Reactor 3 was partially fueled by mixed-oxides (MOX). There was no MOX (mixed oxide) fuel in any of the...
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    Non-proliferation PUREX Process, European Nuclear Society Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) Archived 2013-03-01 at the Wayback Machine – World Nuclear Association...
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    the cost of nuclear reprocessing and the production of MOX-fuel compared to the "once thru fuel cycle" and disposal in deep geological repository are extremely...
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  • fresh fuel suitable for widespread use in Russian reactor designs. MOX or Mixed Oxide Fuel as deployed in some western European and East Asian nations generally...
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    four fuel assemblies containing mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, incorporating 140 kg of plutonium supplied from recycled nuclear weapons material. The MOX fuel pellets...
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  • stations) can reuse reactor-grade plutonium only to a limited degree as MOX fuel, and only for a second cycle. Fast-neutron reactors, of which there are...
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  • boyfriend Drew Stephens and her lesbian friend Dolly Pelliker. She makes MOX fuel rods for nuclear reactors, where she deals with the threat of exposure...
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    mixed with depleted uranium to produce MOX fuel, mixed with lightly enriched Uranium fuel to form REMIX fuel both for conventional slow-neutron reactors...
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  • Information Administration, the organization however is silent on the recycled MOX fuel. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory does not mention nuclear power...
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    extracts plutonium which is then recycled into MOX fuel at the Marcoule site. It has treated spent nuclear fuel from France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland...
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    Since September 2010, Unit 3 has been fueled by a small fraction (6%) of plutonium containing mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, rather than the low enriched uranium...
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    separated. An example procedure could be to dissolve spent reactor fuel (e.g. MOX fuel) in nitric acid, and remove the bulk of the uranium and plutonium...
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