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Monday, October 18, 2010

Chillicothe Gazette * Your browser’s security settings are preventing some features from appearing. See instructions for fixing the problem. Board finds no major safety concerns at USEC facilities

No safety issues at USEC's Ohio facilities, NRC official says
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has discovered no major safety issues at USEC's Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant and American Centrifuge demonstration facility, both in Piketon, Ohio, according to Jay Henson, the NRC's bureau chief overseeing inspections for USEC facilities. The bureau is also recommending fewer inspection hours as USEC reduces operations at the two facilities, Henson said. Chillicothe Gazette (Ohio)

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Material For 16000 Nuclear Warheads Eliminated by Megatons to Megawatts

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Image via WikipediaMaterial For 16000 Nuclear Warheads Eliminated by Megatons to Megawatts

The fuel generated to date could produce enough electricity to meet the demand for a city the size of Boston or Seattle for approximately 610 years and is the energy equivalent of more than 9.8 billion barrels of oil or nearly three years of U.S. crude oil imports.

by Staff Writers Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2010 USEC has announced that the Megatons to Megawatts program has eliminated the equivalent of 16,000 nuclear warheads by recycling 400 metric tons of weapons-grade uranium from Russia into low enriched uranium used as fuel in commercial nuclear power plants. The Megatons to Megawatts program is a unique, commercially financed government-industry partnership in which 500 metric tons of Russian weapons-grade uranium downblended to low enriched uranium is being supplied to USEC for delivery to USEC's customers as commercial reactor fuel.
"For more than 15 years, USEC and TENEX have cooperated in fueling America's nuclear reactors while reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation for the entire world," said John K. Welch, USEC president and chief executive officer. "Our bilateral efforts have made the world safer, benefited the American consumer, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions."
USEC's subsidiary, United States Enrichment Corporation, as executive agent for the U.S. government, and JSC "Techsnabexport" (TENEX), acting for the Russian government, implement the program, which is on track to complete the downblending of the equivalent of 20,000 nuclear warheads into commercial nuclear fuel by the end of 2013.
USEC has paid the Russian Federation more than $6.7 billion for the SWU (separative work units) component of the low enriched uranium delivered since 1995.
The total amount paid to Russia through the 20-year life of the contract is expected to exceed $8 billion. USEC also supplies natural uranium to TENEX in exchange for the uranium component of the low enriched uranium.
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is the U.S. lead agency on the Megatons to Megawatts program. Through its HEU Transparency Program, NNSA works to reduce nuclear risks by monitoring the conversion of Russian highly enriched uranium at several sites in Russia.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Warheads Eliminated by Megatons to Megawatts

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Megatons to Megawatts – USEC Recycles 400 Tons of Weapon Grade Uranium into Nuclear Fuel

"For more than 15 years, USEC and TENEX have cooperated in fueling America's nuclear reactors while reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation for the entire world," said John K. Welch, USEC president and chief executive officer. "Our bilateral efforts have made the world safer, benefited the American consumer, and reduced greenhouse...