mixed oxide

collocation in English

meaningsofmixedandoxide

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mixed
adjective
uk
/mɪkst/us
/mɪkst/
showing a mixture of different feelings ...
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oxide
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɒk.saɪd/us
/ˈɑːk.saɪd/
a chemical combination of oxygen and one ...
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(Definition ofmixedandoxidefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Mixedoxidefuel can be used in either thermal or fast reactors for generating electricity.
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We can burn it, asmixedoxidefuel, in nuclear reactors.
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One option is to use some of this plutonium to fabricatemixedoxidefuel to burn in civil nuclear reactors to generate electricity.
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The increasing trade inmixedoxidefuel is of particular concern.
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There is also a certain amount of interest in mixing the plutonium with the uranium for amixedoxidefuel.
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Plutonium may be used as amixedoxidefuel for thermal reactors to produce electricity and for incineration in fast reactors to produce electricity.
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Mixedoxidefuel incorporating plutonium oxide is one option, subject to meeting the appropriate regulatory requirements including those in respect of safeguards.
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I have no doubt that as uranium becomes scarcer we shall want to have themixedoxidereactors alongside as thermal reactors.
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What is likely to happen in terms of the preferred options of either incorporation through vitrification and deep disposal or otherwise, or the use ofmixedoxidefuel?
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In this respect, highly enriched uranium can be blended with natural uranium to make some reactor fuels into plutonium, which could be used inmixedoxidefuels.
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Mixedoxidefuel is transported in packages that have been approved as meeting the national regulations and international safety standards covering the transport of radioactive materials by sea.
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My concern is that more nuclear power production in this country would merely add fuel to the debate on recycling nuclear materials,mixedoxidefuel plants, and other dangerous technologies.
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It is worth mentioning that whatever may be the final options - vitrification, transmutation, recycling,mixedoxide, - the appropriate safeguards will have to be maintained and even strengthened.
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Ifmixedoxidepowders are used, the product is an alloy.
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It is amixedoxideof lead, scandium, and tantalum.
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This means that they are strongly opposed to the use ofmixedoxidefuel.
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An extensive series of non-stoichiometric mixed oxides exists.
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Well-characterized examples of the highest oxidation state are rare, but include and two mixed oxides and.
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The ceramic material is a mixture of finely ground granules of paraelectric or ferroelectric materials, modified by mixed oxides that are necessary to achieve the capacitor's desired characteristics.
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