Sentences with phrase «exposed fuel pools»

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If the pool leaks or the cooling system breaks, as happened in Japan, the nuclear fuel rods could become exposed and release radioactive gas.

At the time of the accident, some feared that cooling water had drained out of the pool and exposed the fuel to air, which might have led to overheating and melting.

After all, the spent fuel pools that may have been exposed by the power plant explosions contain more than 200 metric tons of used uranium fuel rods that have been cooling for weeks, months or even years — and smoke or steam continues to billow from the exposed spent fuel pool of reactor No. 3.

And although information has been spotty, nuclear experts worry that this fuel — which should be submerged in circulating water to keep it from overheating — has been at least partly exposed in the pools belonging to reactor Nos. 3 and 4.

When an explosion blew off Unit 4's roof on 15 March, plant operators assumed the cause was hydrogen — and they feared it had come from fuel in the pool that had been exposed to air.

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