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How to pronounce “downblend”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of downblend with real speech in context.
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- Superfuel: Thorium, The Green Energy Source for the Future
The current plan on the part of the DOE is to downblend that thorium with spent uranium
- Definition summary
- (usually transitive, nuclear physics) To blend highly-enriched uranium, typically from decommissioned nuclear weapons, with uranium containing a low concentration of fissile uranium-235 (slightly-enriched uranium, natural uranium, or depleted uranium) in order to convert it to low-enriched uranium suitable for use as fuel in standard power reactors but not usable for a fission bomb.
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How to pronounce downblend
Superfuel: Thorium, The Green Energy Source for the Future
The current plan on the part of the DOE is to downblend that thorium with spent uranium
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (usually transitive, nuclear physics) To blend highly-enriched uranium, typically from decommissioned nuclear weapons, with uranium containing a low concentration of fissile uranium-235 (slightly-enriched uranium, natural uranium, or depleted uranium) in order to convert it to low-enriched uranium suitable for use as fuel in standard power reactors but not usable for a fission bomb.
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