"excess" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Perhaps the most elegant solution of all would be to pitch excess plutonium into space, firing it into the Sun.
- America will need to dispose of more than 50 tons of excess plutonium.
- If fast neutron reactors are not available (the normal case), excess plutonium is usually discarded, and forms the longest-lived component of nuclear waste.
- And 134 tons of excess plutonium, which the Russians are willing to destroy, are just sitting in storage.
- American and Russian officials recently fought over arcane rules that would govern a program to dispose of that 134 tons of excess plutonium.
- The Energy Department confirmed today that it would follow a dual track to dispose of excess plutonium from nuclear weapons.
- A variation of the thorium idea may allow the Department of Energy to use excess plutonium in commercial nuclear power plants, also without creating byproducts suitable for weapons.
- You argue that if excess plutonium from old warheads is used as reactor fuel, it becomes radioactive and thus harder to make into bombs.
- But they would have to let the International Atomic Energy Agency inspect such production, and insure that excess plutonium is stored securely.
- MOX also provides a means of using excess weapons-grade plutonium (from military sources) to produce electricity.
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