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2012-11-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bushehr plant unloads fuel rods.... What kind of N-Fuel were they running on?
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Posted by Water Modem 2012-11-16 18:05|| || Front Page|| [336095 views ]  Top

#1 MOX?
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 blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. MOX fuel is an alternative to the low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel used in the light water reactors that predominate nuclear power generation. For example, a mixture of 7% plutonium and 93% natural uranium reacts similarly, although not identically, to LEU fuel. MOX usually consists of two phases, UO2 and PuO2, and/or a single phase solid solution (U,Pu)O2. The content of PuO2 may vary from 1.5 wt.% to 25-30 wt.% depending on the type of nuclear reactor. Although MOX fuel can be used in thermal reactors to provide energy, efficient burning of plutonium in MOX can only be achieved in fast reactors.[1]

One attraction of MOX fuel is that it is a way of utilizing surplus weapons-grade plutonium, an alternative to storage of surplus plutonium, which would need to be secured against the risk of theft for use in nuclear weapons.[2][3] On the other hand, some studies warned that normalising the global commercial use of MOX fuel and the associated expansion of nuclear reprocessing will increase, rather than reduce, the risk of nuclear proliferation, by encouraging increased separation of plutonium from spent fuel in the civil nuclear fuel cycle.
Posted by Water Modem 2012-11-16 18:15||   2012-11-16 18:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps an bug is screwing with the thing, or they expect a strike and are trying to make it safe.
Posted by rjschwarz 2012-11-16 20:06||   2012-11-16 20:06|| Front Page Top

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