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However, if this expedition were genuine, the urgent need for the transuranics was a chronic condition in the FPS, then someone, if not their own ARTC-10 EV, would strip the message from the beamer satellite, and take the appropriate action of returning to Ireta to extract the all-important ores and minerals and, incidentially, rescue them.
Cattle Town 2010
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However, if this expedition were genuine -- the urgent need for the transuranics was a chronic condition in the FPS -- then someone, if not their own ARTC-10 EV, would strip the message from the beamer satellite, and take the appropriate action of returning to Ireta to extract the all-important ores and minerals and, incidentially, rescue them.
Dinosaur Planet McCaffrey, Anne 1978
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The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has produced a dozen superheavy elements called transuranics and bear such names as berkelium, californium, lawrencium and seaborgium.
SFGate: Top News Stories David Perlman 2010
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"We're here for the transuranics, aren't we?" asked Dimenon at his most dramatic as he burst into the small cabin, an equally excited Aulia beside him.
Cattle Town 2010
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Not on a planet as rich in the transuranics as this one.
Cattle Town 2010
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Above all else was the urgent need of the transuranics.
Cattle Town 2010
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And Ireta, a satellite of a suspected third generation sun, ought to be rich in the heavier elements, rich in the neptunium, plutonium and the more esoteric of the rare transuranics and actinites above uranium on the periodic table, so urgently and constantly required by the Federation of Sentient Populations the search for which was one of the primary tasks of the EEC.
Cattle Town 2010
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The parameters are: passive safety, economic competitiveness with light water reactors, efficient utilization of resources (burning transuranics and depleted uranium), reduced wastes, proliferation resistance, and versatility (include hydrogen production).
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Thus, plutonium and the other transuranics remained immobile.
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Used fuel 27 tonnes containing 240kg plutonium, 23 t uranium (0.8% U-235), 720kg fission products, also transuranics.
Nuclear fuel cycle 2009
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