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The ADE-2 is a dual use water-cooled thermal graphite-moderated reactor. The reactor was dual-purpose - producing weapons-grade plutonium and providing heat and electricity. [ 2 ]
The plant was considered part of the weapons-grade Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement signed between the United States and Russia. The reactor is part of the final step for a plutonium-burner core (a core designed to burn and, in the process, destroy, and recover energy from, plutonium) [4] The plant reached its full power ...
Reactor-grade plutonium (RGPu) [1] [2] is the isotopic grade of plutonium that is found in spent nuclear fuel after the uranium-235 primary fuel that a nuclear power reactor uses has burnt up. The uranium-238 from which most of the plutonium isotopes derive by neutron capture is found along with the U-235 in the low enriched uranium fuel of ...
The Ford Nucleon concept car. The Ford Nucleon is a concept car developed by Ford in 1957, designed as a future nuclear-powered car —one of a handful of such designs during the 1950s and 1960s. The concept was only demonstrated as a scale model.
Construction has started in 1964. Reactor reached first criticality in 1968. [4] Commissioned in 1969. [1] From 1969 to 1981 the BOR-60 used the pellet uranium fuel. [5] Since 1981 BOR-60 has been using the vibropac oxide mixed fuel with the power grade plutonium. [5] BOR-60 is expected to be closed in 2025. Currently constructed MBIR should ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has halted the nuclear reactor at its main atomic complex, probably to extract plutonium that could be used for weapons by reprocessing spent fuel rods, a South Korean ...
MOX or Mixed Oxide Fuel [4] as deployed in some western European and East Asian nations generally consists of depleted uranium mixed with between 4% and 7% reactor grade plutonium. Only a few Generation II and about half of Generation III reactor designs are MOX fuel compliant allowing them to use a 100% MOX fuel load with no safety concerns.
Zheleznogorsk is also the location for the production of plutonium, electricity and district heat using graphite-moderated water-cooled reactors. The last reactor was shut down permanently in April 2010. [10] It is the location of a military reprocessing facility and for a Russian commercial nuclear-waste storage facility.