Look up: fuel-cycle

1. fuel cycle
   The series of steps required to produce electricity. The fuel cycle includes mining or otherwise acquiring the raw fuel source, processing and cleaning the fuel, transport, electricity generation, waste management and plant decommissioning. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...
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2. fuel cycle
   fuel cycle The total life of a given fuel in all of its uses and forms, including its extraction or generation, transportation, combustion, air emission, byproduct removal, and waste transportation and disposal.
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3. fuel cycle
   sequence of industrial operations through which the nuclear fuel may pass, such as: - mining, extraction, conversion, enrichment, fabrication and utilization, - reprocessing nuclear fuel or fertile material - recycle and radioactive waste management
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4. Fuel cycle
   the impacts of power production are not exclusively generated during the operation of the power plant, but also in the entire chain of activities needed for the electricity production and distribution, such as fuel extraction, processing and transformation, construction and installation of the equip...
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