The second and third agreements were for technical assistance, including components, for the building of pilot plants for uranium-dioxide conversion and fuel fabrication.

It also is an intermediate in mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication.

Today's solid fuelled reactor vendors make long term revenues by making profit on the fuel fabrication.

May - WANO conducts its first pilot peer review at a nuclear fuel fabrication and processing facility.

These operations included fuel fabrication, storage and reprocessing, radioactive measurement and calibration and radioactive waste management and disposal preparation.

This, along with the high sintering temperature necessary to make thorium-dioxide fuel, complicates fuel fabrication.

There is a higher cost of fuel fabrication and reprocessing in designs that use traditional solid fuel rods.

Conversion to UO is often performed as the first stage of nuclear fuel fabrication.

Most of the outstanding issues in connection with uranium conversion activities, laser enrichment, fuel fabrication and the heavy water research reactor program have been resolved.

This self-sufficiency extends from uranium exploration and mining through fuel fabrication, heavy water production, reactor design and construction, to reprocessing and waste management.