Development of advanced fuels Sample Clauses

Development of advanced fuels. The needs for longer term R&D concerning fuel and relative fabrication processes are identified in the following areas: (i) oxide fuels with optimized microstructure, including fuels incorporating Pu coming from multirecycling and transmutation fuels, (ii) advanced carbide and nitride fuels and (iii) alternative fuel concepts (see Table 10). For each case dedicated irradiation testing will also be necessary in material testing or fast neutron reactors. Once removed from the reactor, PIEs must be performed. • Advanced oxide fuels development Powder metallurgy will still be the choice for first MOX fabrication plants, but co-conversion routes to generate MOX powder should be developed to reduce dust issues, enable optimised remote handling with degraded Pu vectors (and concomitant 241Am pollution due to 241Pu decay) when Pu multi recycling is established, and to achieve greater Pu homogeneity, enabling greater reliability and accuracy in properties, lower risk of hot spots under power, and a product more readily dissolvable to close the nuclear fuel cycle. Incremental process improvements can be made. In particular, a deviation (partial or complete) from traditional powder blending should be considered to yield a more homogeneous MOX fuel devoid of Pu rich regions, enabling a more uniform burnup and a material readily soluble under PUREX conditions. Such an evolutionary step can be achieved at the conversion stage at the recycling plant, where the U and Pu solutions are unified in a predetermined Pu enrichment. The (U,Pu) solution can be co-converted into a powder ready for further manipulation and processing into product pellets. Classical hydroxide precipitation is to be avoided as it results in a dangerous material – ammonium nitrate, which is explosive when dry. Other co-precipitation routes should be considered, for example (U,Pu) oxalate precipitation. Plant simplification and automation will play an important role too. The implementation of such processes can be accelerated if important issues pertaining to dust can be eliminated. Ideally the co-precipitation steps should result in an essentially dust-free powder, and should in an optimum situation not contain particles with diameters less than 20 µm aerodynamic diameter. Such particles should also be spherical or near spherical to ease their transport in the production lines. If dust can be eliminated, the potential for radiological pollution of the gloveboxes and the equipment therein can be reduced...
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Unless such Revolving Credit Lender’s commitment to make Revolving Credit Advances hereunder shall have been suspended or terminated in accordance with this Agreement, each such Revolving Credit Lender shall make available the amount of its Revolving Credit Percentage of each Revolving Credit Advance in immediately available funds to Agent, as follows: (i) for Prime-based Advances, at the office of Agent located at Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, not later than 1:00 p.m. (Detroit time) on the date of such Advance; and (ii) for Eurodollar-based Advances, at the Agent’s Correspondent for the account of the Eurodollar Lending Office of the Agent, not later than 12:00 p.m. (the time of the Agent’s Correspondent) on the date of such Advance. (b) Subject to submission of an executed Request for Revolving Credit Advance by Borrowers without exceptions noted in the compliance certification therein, Agent shall make available to Borrowers the aggregate of the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Credit Lenders in Dollars: (i) for Prime-based Advances, not later than 4:00 p.m. (Detroit time) on the date of such Revolving Credit Advance, by credit to an account of Borrowers maintained with Agent or to such other account or third party as Borrowers may reasonably direct in writing, provided such direction is timely given; and (ii) for Eurodollar-based Advances, not later than 4:00 p.m. (the time of the Agent’s Correspondent) on the date of such Revolving Credit Advance, by credit to an account of Borrowers maintained with Agent’s Correspondent or to such other account or third party as Borrowers may direct, provided such direction is timely given. (c) Agent shall deliver the documents and papers received by it for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender to such Revolving Credit Lender. Unless Agent shall have been notified by any Revolving Credit Lender prior to the date of any proposed Revolving Credit Advance that such Revolving Credit Lender does not intend to make available to Agent such Revolving Credit Lender’s Percentage of such Advance, Agent may assume that such Revolving Credit Lender has made such amount available to Agent on such date, as aforesaid. Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make available to Borrowers the amount of such payment in reliance on such assumption. If such amount is not in fact made available to Agent by such Revolving Credit Lender, as aforesaid, Agent shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Credit Lender. If such Revolving Credit Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon Agent’s demand therefor and the Agent has in fact made a corresponding amount available to Borrowers, the Agent shall promptly notify Borrowers and Borrowers shall pay such amount to Agent, if such notice is delivered to Borrowers prior to 1:00 p.m. (Detroit time) on a Business Day, on the day such notice is received, and otherwise on the next Business Day, and such amount paid by Borrowers shall be applied as a prepayment of the Revolving Credit (without any corresponding reduction in the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment), reimbursing Agent for having funded said amounts on behalf of such Revolving Credit Lender. The Borrowers shall retain their claims against such Revolving Credit Lender with respect to the amounts repaid by it to Agent and, if such Revolving Credit Lender subsequently makes such amounts available to Agent, Agent shall promptly make such amounts available to the Borrowers as a Revolving Credit Advance. Agent shall also be entitled to recover from such Revolving Credit Lender or Borrowers, as the case may be, but without duplication, interest on such amount in respect of each day from the date such amount was made available by Agent to Borrowers, to the date such amount is recovered by Agent, at a rate per annum equal to: (i) in the case of such Revolving Credit Lender, for the first two (2) Business Days such amount remains unpaid, the Federal Funds Effective Rate, and thereafter, at the rate of interest then applicable to such Revolving Credit Advances; and (ii) in the case of Borrowers, the rate of interest then applicable to such Advance of the Revolving Credit. Until such Revolving Credit Lender has paid Agent such amount, such Revolving Credit Lender shall have no interest in or rights with respect to such Advance for any purpose whatsoever. The obligation of any Revolving Credit Lender to make any Revolving Credit Advance hereunder shall not be affected by the failure of any other Revolving Credit Lender to make any Advance hereunder, and no Revolving Credit Lender shall have any liability to the Borrowers or any of their respective Subsidiaries, the Agent, any other Revolving Credit Lender, or any other party for another Revolving Credit Lender’s failure to make any loan or Advance hereunder.

  • Advances; Reimbursement of Advances (a) From time to time, (i) pursuant to terms of the Servicing Agreement, the Lead Servicer and/or the related Trustee may be obligated to make (1) Property Advances with respect to the Mortgage Loan or the Mortgaged Property and (2) P&I Advances with respect to the Lead Note and (ii) pursuant to the terms of the Non-Lead Servicing Agreement, the related Non-Lead Master Servicer and/or the related Trustee may be obligated to make P&I Advances with respect to the Non-Lead Note. The Lead Servicer and/or the related Trustee will not be required to make any P&I Advance with respect to the Non-Lead Note and the related Non-Lead Master Servicer and/or the related Trustee will not be required to make any P&I Advance with respect to any Lead Note or any Property Advance. The Lead Servicer, the Non-Lead Master Servicer and any Trustee will be entitled to interest on any Advance made in the manner and from the sources provided in the Note A-1 PSA and the Note A-2 PSA, as applicable. (b) The Lead Servicer and the related Trustee, as applicable, will be entitled to reimbursement for a Property Advance, first from the Collection Account established with respect to the Mortgage Loan, and then, if such Property Advance is a Nonrecoverable Advance, if such funds on deposit in the Collection Account are insufficient, from general collections of the Lead Securitization as provided in the Servicing Agreement. (c) To the extent amounts on deposit in the Collection Account with respect to the Mortgage Loan are insufficient to reimburse the Lead Servicer for any Property Advance and/or interest thereon and the Lead Servicer or the related Trustee, as applicable, obtains funds from general collections of the Lead Securitization as a reimbursement for a Property Advance or interest thereon, the Non-Lead Note Holder (including any Securitization into which the Non-Lead Note is deposited) shall be required to, promptly following notice from the Lead Servicer, pay to the Lead Securitization for its pro rata share of such Property Advance and/or interest thereon at the Reimbursement Rate. In addition, the Non-Lead Note Holder (including any Securitization into which the Non-Lead Note is deposited) shall promptly reimburse the Lead Servicer or the related Trustee for the Non-Lead Note Holder’s pro rata share of any fees, costs or expenses incurred in connection with the servicing and administration of the Mortgage Loan as to which the Lead Securitization or any of the parties thereto are entitled to be reimbursed pursuant to the terms of the Servicing Agreement (to the extent amounts on deposit in the Collection Account with respect to the Mortgage Loan are insufficient for reimbursement of such amounts). (d) The parties to each of the Note A-1 PSA and the Note A-2 PSA shall each be entitled to make their own recoverability determination with respect to a P&I Advance based on the information that they have on hand and in accordance with the Note A-1 PSA and the Note A-2 PSA, as applicable. (e) If the Lead Servicer or the related Trustee elects to defer the reimbursement of a Property Advance in accordance with the terms of the Servicing Agreement, the Lead Servicer or the related Trustee shall also defer its reimbursement of the Non-Lead Note share from the Non-Lead Note Holder.

  • Purpose of Advances The Borrowers undertake with each Creditor Party to use each Advance only for the purpose stated in the preamble to this Agreement.

  • Use of Advances utilize the proceeds of all Advances for the Companies' own business purposes; and not permit such proceeds to be used, directly or indirectly, by any other Person or for any other purpose;

  • Repayment of Advances If the identity of the Servicer shall change, the predecessor Servicer shall be entitled to receive reimbursement for outstanding and unreimbursed Simple Interest Advances made pursuant to Section 4.4 by the predecessor Servicer.

  • Disbursement of Advance Proceeds All Advances shall be disbursed from whichever office or other place Agent may designate from time to time and, together with any and all other Obligations of Borrowers to Agent or Lenders, shall be charged to Borrowers' Account on Agent's books. During the Term, Borrowers may use the Revolving Advances by borrowing, prepaying and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. The proceeds of each Revolving Advance requested by Borrowers or deemed to have been requested by Borrowers under Section 2.2(a) hereof shall, with respect to requested Revolving Advances to the extent Lenders make such Revolving Advances, be made available to the applicable Borrower on the day so requested by way of credit to such Borrower's operating account at PNC, or such other bank as Borrowing Agent may designate following notification to Agent, in immediately available federal funds or other immediately available funds or, with respect to Revolving Advances deemed to have been requested by any Borrower, be disbursed to Agent to be applied to the outstanding Obligations giving rise to such deemed request.

  • Prepayment of Advances No Borrower shall have the right to prepay any principal amount of any Advances other than as provided in this Section 2.07.

  • Funding of Advances (a) Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 6.2, the Borrower may request Advances hereunder by giving notice to the Facility Agent, each Agent and the Collateral Agent of the proposed Advance at or prior to 2:00 p.m., New York City time, at least one (1) Business Day prior to the proposed Advance Date. Such notice (herein called the “Advance Request”) shall be in the form of Exhibit C-1 and shall include (among other things) the proposed Advance Date and amount of such proposed Advance, and shall, if applicable, be accompanied by an Asset Approval Request setting forth the information required therein with respect to the Collateral Obligations to be acquired by the Borrower on the Advance Date (if applicable). The amount of any Advance shall at least be equal to the least of (w) the Dollar equivalent of $500,000 in an Eligible Currency, (x) the (1) Borrowing Base on such day minus (2) the Advances Outstanding on such day, (y) the (1) Facility Amount on such day minus (2) the Advances Outstanding on such day and (z) only in the case of Advances other than Dollar Advances, the (1) Foreign Currency Sublimit on such day minus (2) the Foreign Currency Advance Amount on such day, in each case, before giving effect to the requested Advance as of such date. Any Advance Request given by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.2, shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. The Facility Agent shall have no obligation to lend funds hereunder in its capacity as Facility Agent. Subject to receipt by the Collateral Agent of an Officer’s Certificate of the Borrower confirming the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 6.2, and the Collateral Agent’s receipt of such funds from the Lenders, the Collateral Agent shall make the proceeds of such requested Advances available to the Borrower by deposit to such account as may be designated by the Borrower in the Advance Request in same day funds no later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Advance Date.

  • Conditions of Advances The Banks and the Agent shall not be obligated to make any Advance hereunder at any time unless: (a) On the Effective Date there shall have been delivered to each Bank the following documents, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and the following additional conditions shall have been satisfied: (i) The favorable opinion of such counsel for the Borrowers as shall be approved by the Required Banks, with respect to the matters as requested by the Banks, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Required Banks; (ii) certified copies of such corporate documents of each Borrower, including each Borrower's articles of incorporation, by-laws and a good standing certificate, and such documents evidencing necessary corporate action with respect to this Agreement, the Loans, the Notes and the Security Documents, and certifying to the incumbency of, and attesting to the genuineness of the signatures of, those officers authorized to act on behalf of each Borrower, as the Banks shall request; (iii) the Security Documents required as of the Effective Date under Section 5.1 duly executed on behalf of the Borrowers, together with evidence of the recordation, filing and other action in such jurisdictions as the Banks may deem necessary or appropriate with respect to the Security Documents and evidence of the first-priority of the Banks' liens and security interests under the Security Documents, subject only to Permitted Liens, including without limitation such additional mortgages, security agreements, pledge agreements, other documents and opinions of counsel required by the Banks and original stock certificates and assignments separate from certificate of each Person whose stock is required to be pledged; (iv) the Notes duly executed on behalf of the Borrowers, and it is acknowledged and agreed that the Notes: (A) are issued in exchange and replacement for the promissory notes issued pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement, (B) shall not be deemed a novation or to have satisfied such promissory notes and (C) evidence the same indebtedness evidenced by such promissory notes plus additional indebtedness; (v) the Consent and Amendment of Security Documents duly executed by the Borrowers; (vi) Payment of such fees agreed to among the Borrowers and the Agent; (vii) the execution by the Borrowers of the Agent's standard environmental certificate; (viii) the Banks shall have determined that the Loans to be made are equal to or less than the Borrowing Base; (ix) copies of all agreements relating to any material Indebtedness for borrowed money, any outstanding preferred stock, any joint ventures or partnerships or any other material documents requested by the Banks; (x) the originals of all promissory notes payable to any Borrower, other than promissory notes in an aggregate amount less than $1,000,000; (xi) such other agreements, documents, conditions and certificates as reasonably requested by the Banks, including without limitation, releases and terminations of all other Liens which are not permitted hereunder and amendments of existing Security Documents, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Banks. (b) The aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Advances after giving effect to the proposed Advance, does not exceed the lesser of the Commitments or the Borrowing Base. (c) On and as of the date of each such Advance, the representations and warranties contained in Section 6 hereof shall be true and correct in all material respects as if made on such date; provided, however, that for purposes of this Section 3.2(c) the representations and warranties contained in Section 6.7 hereof shall be deemed made with respect to both the financial statements referred to therein and the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 7.1(d)(ii) and (iii). (d) No Default or event or condition which could cause a Material Adverse Effect has occurred and is continuing or will exist upon the disbursement of such Advance. Acceptance of the proceeds of any Advance hereunder by the Borrowers shall be deemed to be a certification by the Borrowers at such time with respect to the matters set forth in subparagraphs (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 3.2.

  • Making of Advances (a) Subject to Section 2.06(d), each Interest Advance shall be made by the Liquidity Provider upon delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex I, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, such Interest Advance to be in an amount not exceeding the Maximum Available Commitment at such time and used solely for the payment when due of interest with respect to the Class A Certificates at the Stated Interest Rate therefor in accordance with Section 3.05(a) and 3.05(b) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Each Interest Advance made hereunder shall automatically reduce the Maximum Available Commitment and the amount available to be borrowed hereunder by subsequent Advances by the amount of such Interest Advance (subject to reinstatement as provided in the next sentence). Upon repayment to the Liquidity Provider in full or in part of the amount of any Interest Advance made pursuant to this Section 2.02(a), together with accrued interest thereon (as provided herein), the Maximum Available Commitment shall be reinstated by an amount equal to the amount of such Interest Advance so repaid, but not to exceed the Maximum Commitment; provided, however, that, subject to Section 2.06(d), the Maximum Available Commitment shall not be so reinstated at any time if (x) both a Performing Note Deficiency exists and a Liquidity Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (y) a Final Advance, a Downgrade Advance, a Non-Extension Advance or a Special Termination Advance shall have occurred. (b) (i) A Non-Extension Advance shall be made by the Liquidity Provider if this Agreement is not extended in accordance with Section 3.05(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement unless a Replacement Liquidity Facility to replace this Agreement shall have been delivered to the Borrower in accordance with said Section 3.05(d), upon delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex II, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account in accordance with Sections 3.05(d) and 3.05(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement.

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