English translation: "de traitement" = euphemism for "enriched"?
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08:19 Nov 3, 2010
French to English translations [PRO] Science - Nuclear Eng/Sci
French term or phrase:uranium de traitement
This is from a document describing a nuclear company's activities. Concerning the back end of the fuel cycle...
En aval, la XXXXX intervient dans la conversion de l’uranium de traitement participant ainsi au recyclage des combustibles usés.
Explanation: The CONVERSION as soon as practicable OF HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM (HEU) extracted from nuclear weapons resulting from the reduction of nuclear weapons pursuant to arms control agreements and other commitments of the parties which is currently estimated at approximately 500 metric tons in the Russian Federation, having an average assay of 90 percent or greater of the uranium isotope 235 INTO LOW ENRICHED URANIUM (LEU) for use as fuel in commercial nuclear reactors http://www.nti.org/db/nisprofs/russia/fulltext/heudeal/heufu...
Thus the CONVERSION FROM HIGH-ENRICHED TO LOW-ENRICHED URANIUM will be a fact, and after several years a process of technical development, ... www.nrg.eu/general/nieuws/2006/20060508.html
HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM RECYCLE AND CONVERSION FACILITY at COGEMA Pierrelatte. S. Bouchardy * and J. F. Pauty. COMEGA, Uranium Division, 78140 Velizy ...
ENRICHED URANIUM inventories (over 5% U235) exist under various chemical forms and enrichments. The REUSE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR RESEARCH REACTOR FUEL, EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS OR AS RAW MATERIAL FOR RESEARCH LABORATORIES REQUIRES A CHANGE IN THE CHEMICAL FORM AND/OR A CHANGE IN THE ENRICHMENT LEVEL and/or an improvement in the chemical purity. The COGEMA PIERRELATTE FACILITY (RECYCLE AND CONVERSION FACILITY) is well suited to perform these tasks. Its experience in this field has been acquired over the last 30 years. This paper presents the capabilities of this facility.
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0029549397002100
In which case you'd best stick to "treated uranium" and let the readers' fingers do the walking.
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COGEMA Pierrelatte a pour activités principales la conversion en oxyde du nitrate d'uranyle issu du traitement des combustibles usés et la défluoration des uraniums appauvris issus de l'enrichissement.
Pour le compte du Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, COGEMA assure le démantèlement des usines qui ont produit pour les besoin de la Défense nationale de l'uranium très enrichi, jusqu'en 1996. http://www.office-tourisme-pierrelatte.com/vieeco-detail.php...
OK, so once spent fuel has been TREATED and de-enriched uranium has been DEFLUORATED, there remains a waste product requiring CONVERSION into uranyl nitrate oxide ...
On March 16, 2002, a 200-litre tank of low-level liquid radioactive waste exploded at Cogéma's Pierrelatte TU5 CONVERSION facility. An investigation done by ... www.wise-uranium.org › ... › Issues › Europe
Uranium and plutonium recovered by spent fuel reprocessing are recycled into new fuel elements at Pierrelatte. COGEMA has two facilities in operation (TU2 (17) and TU5 (18) ) to chemically treat recovered uranium for recycling into uranium fuel, after reenrichment in uranium 235. TU2 also produces depleted uranium oxide for mixed uranium / plutonium oxide fuel (MOX). http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/france/pierrelatte.h...
Here spent fuel is processed to produce uranium and plutonium which are then recycled (converted?) to make new fuel.
Surely yellow cake comes before the production of fuel elements not afterwards?
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yellow cake / processed uranium
Explanation: Dictionnaire Framatome
"ISLAMABAD: India’s Jaduguda uranium mines in Jharkhand are becoming notorious for the smuggling of processed uranium, or ‘yellow cake’, which is being sold in the international black market, according to ‘WMD Insights’ – a reputable US-based magazine." http://forum.pakistanidefence.com/lofiversion/index.php/t641...
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concentré uranifère
"Définition :
Produit à forte teneur en uranium obtenu par des traitements physiques et chimiques des minerais mais qui doit encore subir un raffinage poussé avant l'utilisation nucléaire de l'uranium." http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index102...
Radu DANAILA Romania Local time: 09:03 Specializes in field Native speaker of: Romanian PRO pts in category: 20
Explanation: The CONVERSION as soon as practicable OF HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM (HEU) extracted from nuclear weapons resulting from the reduction of nuclear weapons pursuant to arms control agreements and other commitments of the parties which is currently estimated at approximately 500 metric tons in the Russian Federation, having an average assay of 90 percent or greater of the uranium isotope 235 INTO LOW ENRICHED URANIUM (LEU) for use as fuel in commercial nuclear reactors http://www.nti.org/db/nisprofs/russia/fulltext/heudeal/heufu...
Thus the CONVERSION FROM HIGH-ENRICHED TO LOW-ENRICHED URANIUM will be a fact, and after several years a process of technical development, ... www.nrg.eu/general/nieuws/2006/20060508.html
HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM RECYCLE AND CONVERSION FACILITY at COGEMA Pierrelatte. S. Bouchardy * and J. F. Pauty. COMEGA, Uranium Division, 78140 Velizy ...
ENRICHED URANIUM inventories (over 5% U235) exist under various chemical forms and enrichments. The REUSE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR RESEARCH REACTOR FUEL, EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS OR AS RAW MATERIAL FOR RESEARCH LABORATORIES REQUIRES A CHANGE IN THE CHEMICAL FORM AND/OR A CHANGE IN THE ENRICHMENT LEVEL and/or an improvement in the chemical purity. The COGEMA PIERRELATTE FACILITY (RECYCLE AND CONVERSION FACILITY) is well suited to perform these tasks. Its experience in this field has been acquired over the last 30 years. This paper presents the capabilities of this facility.
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0029549397002100
In which case you'd best stick to "treated uranium" and let the readers' fingers do the walking.
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COGEMA Pierrelatte a pour activités principales la conversion en oxyde du nitrate d'uranyle issu du traitement des combustibles usés et la défluoration des uraniums appauvris issus de l'enrichissement.
Pour le compte du Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, COGEMA assure le démantèlement des usines qui ont produit pour les besoin de la Défense nationale de l'uranium très enrichi, jusqu'en 1996. http://www.office-tourisme-pierrelatte.com/vieeco-detail.php...
OK, so once spent fuel has been TREATED and de-enriched uranium has been DEFLUORATED, there remains a waste product requiring CONVERSION into uranyl nitrate oxide ...
On March 16, 2002, a 200-litre tank of low-level liquid radioactive waste exploded at Cogéma's Pierrelatte TU5 CONVERSION facility. An investigation done by ... www.wise-uranium.org › ... › Issues › Europe
Uranium and plutonium recovered by spent fuel reprocessing are recycled into new fuel elements at Pierrelatte. COGEMA has two facilities in operation (TU2 (17) and TU5 (18) ) to chemically treat recovered uranium for recycling into uranium fuel, after reenrichment in uranium 235. TU2 also produces depleted uranium oxide for mixed uranium / plutonium oxide fuel (MOX). http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/france/pierrelatte.h...
Here spent fuel is processed to produce uranium and plutonium which are then recycled (converted?) to make new fuel.
xxxBourth Local time: 08:03 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 218
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Annex 1 Process of uranium enrichment
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Annex 1 Process of uranium enrichment. After mineral extraction, processed uranium ore (or more exceptionally uranium generated from the recycling of ... www.who.int/entity/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/en/Deplurani...
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How uranium is mined and processed / Uranium mining and milling in ...
How uranium is mined and processed. Uranium mining in Africa generally is done through open-pit mining. Usually, the ore is then crushed and leached in a ... www.fataltransactions.org/.../Uranium.../Uranium.../How-ura... - Cached
liz askew United Kingdom Local time: 07:03 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 15
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