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TRIGA
TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) is a class of nuclear research reactors made by General Atomics, first critical in 1958 and prized for inherent safety.
Trillo nuclear power plant
The Trillo nuclear power plant (Central Nuclear de Trillo) is a Spanish nuclear station on the Tagus River in Guadalajara province, the last to open in Spain, in 1988.
TRISO fuel
TRISO fuel (tristructural isotropic fuel) is a nuclear fuel of poppy-seed-sized uranium particles in ceramic coatings that retain fission products and cannot melt in a reactor.
TRISO particle
A TRISO particle (tristructural isotropic coated particle) is a microscopic nuclear fuel element, under 1 mm across, whose carbon and silicon carbide coatings contain fission products.
Trojan nuclear power plant
The Trojan nuclear power plant was Oregon's only commercial nuclear plant, a pressurized water reactor on the Columbia River operated by Portland General Electric from 1976 to 1992.
TRUEX process
The TRUEX (TRansUranium EXtraction) process is a solvent extraction process developed at Argonne National Laboratory in the mid-1980s to extract transuranic elements from acidic nuclear waste solutions.
Tsuruga nuclear power plant
The Tsuruga nuclear power plant (敦賀発電所) is a two-unit nuclear power station in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by the Japan Atomic Power Company.
Turkey Point nuclear power station
Turkey Point nuclear power station is a Florida Power & Light plant on Biscayne Bay south of Miami, with two nuclear units operating since 1972 and 1973.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent federal agency licensing and regulating civilian nuclear materials, created by Congress in 1974 and operating since 1975.
Ulba Metallurgical Plant
The Ulba Metallurgical Plant (Ульбинский металлургический завод) is a Kazakhstani metallurgical company in Ust-Kamenogorsk, founded in 1949 and owned by Kazatomprom, producing uranium fuel, beryllium, and tantalum.
UNGG reactor
The UNGG reactor, short for uranium naturel graphite gaz, was a French gas-cooled power reactor design of the 1950s using natural uranium fuel and carbon dioxide coolant.
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is a UK government research organization, once developer of Britain's civil nuclear fission program and now centered on fusion energy research at Culham in Oxfordshire.
United States Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission was an independent federal agency, created in 1946 and abolished in 1975, that controlled nuclear weapons and regulated nuclear power.
United States naval reactors
United States naval reactors (US naval reactors) are the pressurized-water reactors powering US Navy nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers since USS Nautilus first went underway on nuclear power in 1955.
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent federal agency that licenses and regulates civilian nuclear reactors and radioactive materials to protect public health and safety.
Unterweser nuclear power plant
The Unterweser nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Unterweser) was a pressurized water reactor at Kleinensiel on the Weser river in Lower Saxony, Germany, shut down in March 2011 after Fukushima.
UOX fuel
UOX fuel, short for uranium oxide fuel, is nuclear reactor fuel made of ceramic uranium dioxide pellets in zirconium alloy cladding tubes, the predominant fuel of the commercial nuclear industry.
Ur-Energy Inc
Ur-Energy Inc. is a United States uranium mining company headquartered in Casper, Wyoming, that uses in-situ recovery at its Lost Creek facility, producing since 2013.
Uranium carbide
Uranium carbide, best known as uranium monocarbide (UC), is a ceramic compound of uranium and carbon studied as nuclear reactor fuel for its high uranium density and thermal conductivity.
Uranium dioxide
Uranium dioxide (UO₂) is a black ceramic oxide of uranium, found naturally in the mineral uraninite, that serves as the standard fuel for most commercial nuclear power reactors.
Uranium Energy Corp
Uranium Energy Corp is a United States uranium mining company headquartered in Corpus Christi, Texas, listed on NYSE American as UEC and using in-situ recovery mining in Wyoming and South Texas.
Uranium enrichment
Uranium enrichment is the physical process of increasing the proportion of the fissile isotope uranium-235 in uranium, most often to make fuel for nuclear reactors and weapons.
Uranium extraction from seawater
Uranium extraction from seawater (UES) recovers dissolved uranium from ocean water, which holds about 4.5 billion tons, mostly by adsorption onto amidoxime adsorbents, though costs still exceed terrestrial mining.
Uranium mill tailings
Uranium mill tailings are the sandy waste left after a uranium mill extracts uranium from ore, containing radium-226 and thorium-230 and regulated under the 1978 UMTRCA.
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act
The Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 is a United States federal law that established programs to stabilize and regulate uranium mill tailings at active and inactive mill sites.
Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action program
The Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) program is a U.S. Department of Energy program that cleaned up abandoned uranium mill tailings sites under the 1978 UMTRCA.
Uranium molybdenum alloy
Uranium molybdenum alloy (U-Mo) is a metallic nuclear fuel, about 7 to 10 percent molybdenum, developed for converting research and test reactors to low-enriched uranium.
Uranium One
Uranium One is a Canadian-based uranium mining company that came under full ownership of Russia's Rosatom by 2013, after a 2010 deal approved by CFIUS.
Uranium Royalty Corp
Uranium Royalty Corp is a royalty and streaming company that holds uranium interests, including royalties on Cameco's McArthur River and Cigar Lake mines, without operating mines itself.
Uranium silicide
Uranium silicide, mainly the compound U3Si2, is a high-density nuclear fuel used in aluminum-matrix research reactor plates and tested as an accident tolerant light water reactor fuel.