Sentences with phrase «bwr fuel assemblies»

At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).

Russ» team is charged with the design of the advanced fuel assemblies and reactor cores for the power stations that provide about 7 % of U.S. electricity capacity and more internationally.

Last month they discussed ways to deal with the Lepse, a barge carrying 624 spent or damaged nuclear fuel assemblies, tied up at the Arctic port of Murmansk and in danger of sinking.

Separating the well and the spent fuel pool is a gate through which fuel assemblies are transferred.

As the level fell perilously close to the top of the fuel assemblies, something «fortuitous» happened, Shepherd says.

Without that leakage, the academy panel's own modeling predicted that the tops of the fuel assemblies would have been exposed by early April; as the water continued to evaporate, the odds of the assemblies» zirconium cladding catching fire would have skyrocketed.

The fuel assemblies are chopped up and dissolved by strong acids.

Although these depositories usually contain several used fuel assemblies and therefore more total radioactivity than a reactor does, most of the more dangerous radioactive isotopes in the old fuel have already decayed away.

Spent fuel assemblies that have been removed relatively recently from reactors are kept in deep pools of water to cool them and shield the radiation they emit.

In PUREX recycling, used fuel assemblies are transported to a recycling plant in heavily shielded, damage - resistant shipping casks.

The FHD was certified by the NRC in 2001 and was extensively used to dehydrate Trojan's fuel assemblies, a number of which had water - laden fuel rods.

Furthermore, only one fuel assembly was inspected and even then only external visual inspections were conducted to confirm that there were no penetrating holes.

JAEA claims that the safety of fuel assemblies and some equipment and piping will be confirmed based on consideration of time history waveforms.

The 1268 MWe boiling water reactor entered a scheduled refuelling and maintenance outage on 9 March, which will include replacement of 280 of its 748 fuel assemblies using GNF2 fuel.

Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) has made its next - generation GNF3 boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel assembly available to customers for the first time.

On December 2, 2015, NuScale Power announced a furthering of the AREVA relationship by the signing of a contract to manufacture fuel assemblies.

After removal from the reactor core, spent fuel assemblies are placed in dedicated spent fuel storage racks in the below ground spent fuel pool, which contains four times more water volume for cooling per fuel assembly than current designs.

The NuScale spent fuel pool provides storage for up to 10 years of spent fuel storage, plus temporary storage for new fuel assemblies.

The pool water volume provides a minimum of 30 days of passive cooling of the spent fuel assemblies following a loss of all electrical power without the need for additional water.

These pellets are loaded into metal tubes that are bundled in fuel assemblies (12 to 17 feet tall) and shipped to nuclear power plants.

The product cylinders are then loaded into sturdy protective containers for shipment to a nuclear fuel fabricator where the enriched uranium is converted into fuel assemblies for nuclear power reactors.

Cooper Chief Nuclear Officer Oscar Limpias said the deal was important for customers, securing a reliable and economical source of fabricated nuclear fuel assemblies for the plant's long - term operation.

A recent task order consisted of the removal of 46 HEU fuel assemblies from the Demokritos reactor located in Athens, Greece.

But the fuel assemblies that power a commercial nuclear reactor at an electric utility generally need uranium with a 4 % — 5 % concentration of U235.

The announcement was made during NuScale's tri-annual Advisory Board meeting (NuAB) in Corvallis, OR, and follows an agreement signed by the companies in December 2015 for AREVA to design and manufacture the fuel assemblies.

Nuclear - grade zirconium alloys and products are used in the fabrication of fuel assemblies, which are used in the vast majority of nuclear reactor designs either currently operating, under construction, or planned around the world.

In December 2015, NuScale Power and AREVA Inc. announced a contract for AREVA to manufacture fuel assemblies for NuScale's small modular reactor (SMR) technology.

After conversion of the university reactor at Texas A&M to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuel, NAC provided one NAC - LWT cask for the transport of 84 irradiated High Enriched Uranium (HEU) TRIGA type fuel assemblies to the DOE site of Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

Its high technical content, need for regulatory approval, and the restriction of fuel assemblies to specific reactors require a unique approach to its analysis.

It takes about 10 days for the pool water to boil down to the top («head») of the spent fuel assemblies, and for the pressure inside the containment to rise to the design level of 0.5 MPa (abs).

Using the nuclear energy in the fuel assemblies, these facilities produce more than 2.5 trillion kilowatts of electricity each year.

The fuel assemblies are subject to several inspections before being packed in casks certified for transport.

In ENUSA we manufacture nuclear fuel in our Juzbado facility (Salamanca), where the activities focus on procurement of the uranium and components required for the process and on the engineering and manufacturing of fuel assemblies for Spanish and European nuclear power plants, using the most innovative technologies and latest market advances.

EP then estimated the total amount of spent nuclear fuel assemblies that would be generated over a 25 year period.

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A bill before the state's General Assembly would exempt jet fuel from sales tax, benefiting the airline.

Affordable housing is a priority for this Assembly and we propose to help address this priority with $ 3.8 million to provide incentives for homeowners to replace fuel tanks and to provide funding to cover additional costs for water and sanitation services for public housing.

Assembly of High - Areal - Density Deuterium - Tritium Fuel from Indirectly Driven Cryogenic Implosions

Centralized atheism also feeds hungrily on charisma, and Sanderson Jones, who resembles a tall, bearded messiah - and who, despite the SA recommendation that Assembly hosts should be regularly rotated, dominates each London service - provides ample fuel.

A user friendly design offers quick setup and improved reliability over liquid / multi fuel stoves which require significant assembly and priming before use.

Fueling some of the anger this morning was Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver revealing yesterday that they were mulling a chapter amendment to the law that would exempt Hollywood productions that use prop guns and magazines from the law.

Fueled on endless cups of coffee and the ability to function at high levels on very little sleep, he has been the Assembly Democrats» point man in every budget negotiation I can remember, and I've been covering the Capitol on and off since about 2000.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says with fuel prices plummeting, rents in regulated apartments should even be reduced.

Presidency considers palliatives The Federal Government may go ahead with the withdrawal of fuel subsidy without the National Assembly's approval, The Nation learnt at the...

But Kellner's case was one of three that came to a head this year involving Democrats in the Assembly, and fueled criticism of Silver's handling of such complaints.

Long Island activists and superstorm Sandy victims on Wednesday urged Republican Senate and Assembly candidates to reject political contributions from wealthy donors with ties to the fossil fuel industry.

February 21, 2005: Seoul's semi-official Yonhap News Agency reports that South Korea's defense minister, Yoon Kwang - ung, tells a National Assembly Committee that North Korea has reprocessed «only part» of the 8,000 spent fuel rods from the Yongbyon reactor.

Newell, who previously challenged Silver in the Democratic primary for his assembly seat, said the culture of backroom negotiations, something Silver has become known for, is fueling bad politics for all New Yorkers.

There was obviously little fuel to add much given the economy, so waiting the Governor out wasn't going to raise spending levels, and the Assembly got «enough» in «put - backs» to at least save face to Silver's internal and external constituencies.

Seminerio tendered his resignation to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) Monday, fueling speculation that he has reached or is close to reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors relating to his indictment on corruption charges.

SHARE co-chair Mert Simpson told The Alt that the organization has had discussions with Assembly members McDonald and Fahy about halting the use of fossil fuels in the project, leading them to bring the issue to the Assembly.