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  • Decc's preferred option is to build a plant to combine the plutonium with other materials in so-called mixed-oxide fuel Mox, which is less dangerous than the current plutonium-oxide powder.

    The Guardian World News Duncan Clark 2012

  • Unit 3 is of particular concern, because that's the only reactor at the Fukushima site that uses a mixed uranium-plutonium fuel, also known as a mixed-oxide fuel or "MOX."

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • About 6 percent of the fuel rods in reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant are made from so-called "mixed-oxide" MOX fuel, which contains plutonium as well as uranium.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Reactor No. 3's mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel contains plutonium, and any breach in the reactor's containment unit might account for a plutonium release.

    At Plant, a Choice Between Bad, Worse Andrew Morse 2011

  • Reactor No. 3 uses mixed-oxide, or MOX fuel, that contains plutonium.

    At Plant, Toxic Pools Threaten to Spill Andrew Morse 2011

  • They can be expected to argue that such facilities would serve as a regional supplier for enriched uranium fuel for power reactors, or a regional reprocessing plant, where plutonium could be extracted for recycling spent fuel for re-use in power reactors as mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel.

    16 « November « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • They can be expected to argue that such facilities would serve as a regional supplier for enriched uranium fuel for power reactors, or a regional reprocessing plant, where plutonium could be extracted for recycling spent fuel for re-use in power reactors as mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel.

    albright’s ME nuclear weapons freeze 2008

  • The Atmea joint venture has been established by Areva NP and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to develop an 1100 MWe (net) three-loop PWR with extended fuel cycles, 37% thermal efficiency and the capacity to use mixed-oxide fuel only.

    Advanced nuclear power reactors 2009

  • In order to extract it for recycle, the used fuel is reprocessed, and the recovered plutonium oxide is mixed with depleted uranium oxide to produce mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, with about 5% Pu-239.

    Plutonium 2009

  • The plutonium is normally recycled promptly into mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, by mixing it with depleted uranium.

    Uranium enrichment 2009

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