Decommissioning plants, uranium

The nuclear lobbies were also successful in obtaining 25 billion in loans, which are fully guaranteed by the government for building new nuclear power plants, and 2 billion for a uranium enrichment plant. On the other hand, the problems of nuclear waste storage, security, and decommissioning have not been solved. The nuclear industry is planning to build 28 new reactors at about 5 billion each. 

In this type of extraction, micellar structures are retained by correctly selecting the ultrafiltration (UF) membrane (Scamehorn et al., 1988). Hydrophobic species are solubilized within the micelles, but surfactant monomers in equilibrium with the micelles can penetrate the membrane along with the free solutes in equilibrium with those solubilized in the micelles. Whereas several uses for this technique have been suggested, such as the collection of radioactive uranium and plutonium present in acid wastes during nuclear plant decommissioning, from our point of view its principal use is in enantiomeric separation (Overdevest et al., 1998). 

France has built and operated eight natural uranium graphite moderated COj cooled reactors and exported one to Spain. All of these reactors are now out of service and their present gas cooled reactor related activities focus on study and development of techniques of plant decommissioning. 

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