uranium enrichment (enriching uranium)

In 2010, a computer virus targeting specialized equipment at an Iranian nuclear facility made world news. What was Stuxnet and what did it have to do with uranium enrichment centrifuges? KAZEM GHANE/AFP/Getty Images. In 2010, a computer virus targeting specialized equipment at an Iranian nuclear ...

Both houses of the US Congress have approved an omnibus appropriations bill including USD1.2 billion for nuclear energy. The bill will see the suspension of sales by the Department of Energy (DOE) of surplus uranium to pay for decommissioning work at the former Portsmouth uranium enrichment plant.

China has completed a "large-scale demonstration project for a new generation of uranium enrichment centrifuges", China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced yesterday. The new centrifuges have now been put into production at the Hanzhun fuel facility in Shaanxi province.

DOE officials estimate the robots could save tens of millions of dollars in completing the characterization of uranium deposits at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, and save perhaps $50 million at a similar uranium enrichment plant in Paducah, Kentucky. "This will transform the way ...

Bob Eby continues his excellent documentation of more recent uranium enrichment technologies. Eby has spent his career in uranium enrichment and much of that focused on centrifuge technology, making him a recognized expert in the field of uranium enrichment. Bob Eby continues his excellent ...

The latest failed attempt was by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who visited Tehran on March 5 intending to reaffirm European support for the 2015 nuclear agreement that loosened sanctions on Iran in exchange for scaling back Tehran's uranium enrichment programme. His visit coincided ...

Riyadh is always eager to strengthen political, scientific and economic ties with Washington but it will, in all likelihood, look to other suppliers if the United States insists on the so called “gold standard” agreement that would require Saudi Arabia to forfeit its uranium enrichment rights in exchange for U.S. ...

Inevitably, comparisons will be made with the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, which permitted limited uranium enrichment. But the current debate over this deal is missing the most important point: The issue isn't whether it's fair to constrain the Saudis more than the Iranians, or whether there is an opportunity ...

The 1970s began with an optimistic outlook for uranium enrichment in the United States. All three gaseous diffusion plants — Paducah, Ky., Portsmouth, Ohio, and Oak Ridge — were operating at capacity with long-term contracts for their entire output. New enrichment plants were going to be needed to ...

America has had no uranium enrichment capability to meet such military needs since the 2013 closure of the Paducah enrichment plant, at which time the NNSA had projected that its supply would run out in 2027. The NNSA has now taken or plans to take four actions to extend its inventories of unobligated ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration manages U.S.-origin enriched uranium for certain needs such as for the production of tritium, which is used in nuclear weapons. After losing its last source of U.S.-origin enriched uranium in 2013, NNSA projected that its supply would run out in 2027. We found ...

Iran has previously warned of its ability to restore its uranium enrichment operations if the nuclear deal with the world powers fails as a result of US non-compliance with its undertakings. Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi also said in August that Iran can resume uranium enrichment within five days.

Tehran can resume enriching uranium up to 20 percent within a matter of 48 hours if the U.S. backs out of the nuclear deal, the spokesman of the Islamic Republic's Atomic Energy Organization said March 5. “We are capable of returning to our former enrichment capacity, or even to increased capacity ...