French nuclear company Areva is proposing the Enrichment Technology Company - a joint venture with British/Dutch/German company Urenco - be involved in the building of an enrichment plant in the US. The plant could be up and running by 2013, reaching full capacity by 2017. The plant would be yet another one planned to be built in the States, along with the National Enrichment Facility and the American Centrifuge plant.
All these new plants are needed because the amount of enriched uranium available from old nuclear weapons is reducing. Currently up to half of the nuclear fuel used in the US comes from Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles.
for the top nuclear news site -- please click here
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment