burnup fuel

См. также в других словарях:

• Burnup — In nuclear power technology, burnup is a measure of the neutron irradiation of the fuel. It is normally quoted in megawatt–days per metric ton of uranium metal or its equivalent (MWd/MTU), or gigawatt–days/MTU (GWd/MT). One GW is 1,000 MW; 1… …   Wikipedia

• burnup — urnup n. the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor). [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• burnup — noun 1. a high speed motorcycle race on a public road • Usage Domain: ↑slang, ↑cant, ↑jargon, ↑lingo, ↑argot, ↑patois, ↑vernacular • Regions: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• burnup — /berrn up /, n. the nuclear fuel consumed in a reactor, often measured as a percentage of the atoms of fuel that have undergone fission. [n. use of the v. phrase burn up] * * * …   Universalium

• burnup — noun A measure of the consumption of fuel in a nuclear reactor …   Wiktionary

• Burnup —   Amount of thermal energy generated per unit mass of fuel, expressed as Gigawatt Days Thermal per Metric Ton of Initial Heavy Metal (GWDT/MTIHM), rounded to the nearest gigawatt day.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s… …   Energy terms

• Behavior of nuclear fuel during a reactor accident — This page is devoted to a discussion of how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions such as overheating. Work in this area is often very expensive to conduct, and so… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear fuel cycle — The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the front end, which are the preparation of the fuel, steps in the service period in which… …   Wikipedia

• MOX fuel — Mixed oxide fuel, commonly referred to as MOX fuel, is nuclear fuel that contains more than one oxide of fissile material. MOX fuel contains plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. MOX fuel is an… …   Wikipedia

• Thorium fuel cycle — The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclear fuel cycle that uses thorium 232 as fertile material and uranium 233 as fissile fuel. A major advantage of the thorium fuel cycle is that production of plutonium and other long lived actinides as radioactive… …   Wikipedia

• Spent nuclear fuel — Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant) to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction. Nuclear… …   Wikipedia