The Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) is an extensive research and development effort of the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The mission...
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AFCI may refer to: Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative Arc-Fault Circuit Interrupter Association of Film Commissioners International This disambiguation page...
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Nuclear reprocessing (redirect from Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant)
Lanthanides/Actinides Reference List. Merck.de. Retrieved 10 December 2011. "Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative". U.S. Department of Energy. Archived from the original on 10...
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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...
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Idaho National Laboratory (redirect from Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity)
on July 29, 2013. Retrieved 2014-07-13. Ehresman, Teri. "DOE Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative". United States Department of Energy, DOE Office of Nuclear...
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Status Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative High-temperature electrolysis "Leadership". Energy.gov. Retrieved...
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temperature data available. Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative / Light Water Reactor: The goal of the AFCI is to transmute longer-life fuels into shorter-life ones...
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research and development program, GNEP is an outgrowth of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative In April 2009 the U.S. Department of Energy announced the cancellation...
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Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States (redirect from Fossil fuel emissions in the United States)
Nuclear: Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Clean...
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Generation IV reactor (redirect from GEN IV initiative)
captured by the fuel. The very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR) uses a graphite-moderated core with a once-through uranium fuel cycle, using helium or...
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purifying, using, and disposing of nuclear fuel are collectively known as the nuclear fuel cycle. Most nuclear fuels contain heavy fissile actinide elements...
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included initiatives on: Technical or physical modification of the fuel cycle to restrict access to sensitive nuclear materials Multilateral fuel cycle centers...
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Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines...
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A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (often hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (often oxygen) into electricity...
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Aviation biofuel (redirect from Sustainable aviation fuel)
a kerosene-based fuel. Jatropha, used for biodiesel, can thrive on marginal land where most plants produce low yields. A life cycle assessment on jatropha...
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also manages the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative program. Under the program, the U.S. attempts to recycle spent nuclear fuel using advanced technology while...
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The fuel economy of an automobile relates to the distance traveled by a vehicle and the amount of fuel consumed. Consumption can be expressed in terms...
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considering the entire life cycle ("well to wheels"), in order to reduce the carbon footprint of transportation. The first low-carbon fuel standard mandate in...
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Ethanol fuel is fuel containing ethyl alcohol, the same type of alcohol as found in alcoholic beverages. It is most often used as a motor fuel, mainly...
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Liquid fluoride thorium reactor (section Rankine cycle)
molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based molten (liquid) salt for fuel. In a typical design, the liquid is pumped between...
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generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the isotope uranium-233 produced from the fertile element thorium. A thorium fuel cycle can offer...
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Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of...
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Young Generation in Nuclear and is the Faculty Director of the Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wilson was born...
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Nuclear power (redirect from Advanced nuclear)
plants use thermal reactors with enriched uranium in a once-through fuel cycle. Fuel is removed when the percentage of neutron absorbing atoms becomes so...
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A fuel cell vehicle (FCV) or fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) is an electric vehicle that uses a fuel cell, sometimes in combination with a small battery...
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as a third laboratory location, providing expertise in life-cycle research and advanced materials for energy system challenges. Founded on the site of...
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stored in fossil fuels and is released into the atmosphere through human activities such as burning fossil fuels. In the nitrogen cycle, atmospheric nitrogen...
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integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) is a technology using a high pressure gasifier to turn coal and other carbon based fuels into pressurized gas—synthesis...
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Fuel efficiency (or fuel economy) is a form of thermal efficiency, meaning the ratio of effort to result of a process that converts chemical potential...
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Nuclear thermal rocket (section Nuclear fuel types)
fuel.[citation needed] Between 1987 and 1991, an advanced engine design was studied under Project Timberwind, under the Strategic Defense Initiative,...
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