AREVA'S MOX transport: a traveling security threat
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #685593719/03/2009Rianne Teule, Greenpeace International Nuclear CampaignerEmail: rianne.teule@greenpeace.orgArticleAbout 1.8 tons of plutonium in Mixed-Oxide (MOX) fuel, enough...
View ArticleThe Plutonium Problem: Reprocessing, MOX, and Fast Neutron Reactors
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #76313/06/2013ArticleConventional 'Purex' reprocessing involves dissolving spent nuclear fuel in acid and separating the unused uranium (about 96% of the mass), plutonium (1%)...
View ArticleUK Plutonium and MOX Experience
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #76313/06/2013Martin ForwoodEmail: martin@core.furness.co.ukLink: Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive EnvironmentArticleSince the production of plutonium (via the Windscale Pile...
View ArticleUS MOX plant may get the axe
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #76313/06/2013ArticleThe Obama administration has reduced funding for the construction of a MOX fabrication plant at the Department of Energy's Savannah River site in South...
View ArticleDiminishing prospects for MOX and integral fast reactors
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #810449409/09/2015Jim Green - Nuclear Monitor editorEmail: monitor@wiseinternational.orgArticleA non-existent reactor type called the 'integral fast reactor' (IFR) has some...
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Nuclear Monitor Issue: #69024/06/2009ArticleIndonesia: Tender postponed indefinitely. Indonesian State Minister of Research and Technology Kusmayanto Kadiman announced late last month (May) that the...
View ArticleJapan's troubled plutonium program
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #698599627/11/2009Green Action JapanEmail: info@greenaction-japan.orgLink: Green Action JapanArticleJapan's beleaguered 'pluthernal' program, MOX (mixed plutonium-uranium oxide)...
View ArticleSellafield Mox Plant axed by Fukushima fallout - says NDA
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #732616109/09/2011COREEmail: info@corecumbria.co.ukLink: Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive EnvironmentArticleIn what came clearly as a surprise to the gathering of Sellafied...
View ArticleSellafield: THORP to sruggle on to 2018
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #739620623/12/2011COREEmail: martin@core.furness.co.ukLink: COREArticleIn its recently published paper ‘Oxide Fuels – Credible Options’, November 2011, the United Kingdom's...
View ArticleNDA announce Japanese MOX with the Sellafield MOX plant
Nuclear Monitor Issue: #712606318/06/2010Martin Forwood at CORELink: Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment (CORE)ArticleOver a decade after British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) had persuaded the...
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