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Term used in the UK to describe producers of electricity in the county’s specific regions. Also sometimes refers to owners of transmission assets.
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Uranium where the uranium-235 assay is below the naturally occurring 0. 711%. Depleted uranium is a by-product of the enrichment process.
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Facilities that connect two electricity grid systems, gas pipelines or control areas.
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A process by which polymers are "blown" into a tubular mold. Also refers to a specific grade of polyethylene, sometimes abbreviated as bmldg.
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The heaviest naturally occurring element (atomic number 92). It is metallic and slightly radioactive. Its only substantial use today is as a raw material for generating electricity via nuclear fission. Ranging in atomic mass from 227 to 240, uranium has 14 isotopes, of which only three occur naturally: uranium-238, uranium-235, and uranium-234.
Uranium-238 – comprises 99. 283% by weight of natural uranium (ie uranium whose isotopic composition, as it occurs in nature, has not been altered)and is not fissile, but is fertile. It usually absorbs any neutrons which strike it and as a result is transformed into plutonium-239, a fissile isotope of plutonium.
Uranium-235 – the only naturally occurring isotope of uranium which is capable of fission. Natural uranium contains approximately 0. 711% by weight of uranium-235.
Uranium-234 – exists in very small quantities in natural uranium (0. 005% by weight) and is not fissile in thermal reactors.
The remaining isotopes are created synthetically. Uranium-233 is fissile and is obtained by the irradiation of thorium-232 with neutrons. Uranium-232, -236, and –237 are found in irradiated nuclear fuel and are not fissile.
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The 15-Day Brent crude oil market is so-called because a seller must give a buyer a minimum 15 days notice of the intended loading dates for a cargo of Brent Blend North Sea crude oil in any particular month traded. 15-Day Brent is traded in discreet months. At the point where the buyer—who may be at the end of a long trading chain—is informed of the loading dates, the cargo becomes a so-called Dated Brent cargo.
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This phrase and its abbreviation AG are current in some sectors of the oil industry, especially the tanker world, as a designator for the Persian Gulf, which is the correct name in international law for the body of water bordered by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran. Note that there is a Gulf of Arabia which is not the same piece of sea as the Persian Gulf.
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An atomic nucleus, stable or radioactive, which originates from the process of radioactive decay of an unstable nucleus. Sometimes known as a daughter product.
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A measure of the detonative quality of gasoline, or otherwise expressed its tendency to cause "engine knock. " The higher the octane number, the higher the resistance to engine knock. Octane numbers come in two forms: Research octane number reflects fuel performance under moderate driving conditions, while the tests for motor octane number reflect high speed driving conditions. Tests for both numbers are in fact performed in the laboratory.
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