Sentences with phrase «nuclear fuel rods began»

Nuclear fuel rods began melting and volatile hydrogen gas built up.

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Some 16 months after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operations to remove the nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

The agency was supposed to begin collecting spent nuclear fuel rods in 1998 and remains responsible for storing them.

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