Sentences with phrase «for reactor operators»

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The state - run nuclear power plant operator was preparing for further cyber-attacks after its data was leaked on a blog and to a Twitter account under the profile «president of anti-nuclear reactor group.»

Indian Point operator Entergy had successfully fought to delay those tests to once every 15 years for the plant's Unit 2 reactor, but the state had challenged that, arguing they should be conducted once a decade.

Transfers of casks from operating reactors could follow, and the report authors said that would help resolve a long - running court dispute over payments nuclear plant operators are required to make to the federal government in return for federal storage of the spent fuel — a bargain the federal government has not kept.

When the reactor malfunctions or when operators need to shut off the reactor for any other reason technicians can remotely plunge control rods into the reactor core to soak up neutrons and shut down the nuclear reaction.

The TEPCO operators of the stricken nuclear power plant — a minimal staff of 50 as all non-essential personnel have been evacuated — now face a balance between venting the steam building up in the reactor (since the main danger for a widespread release of radioactive material is steam bursting the thick steel container holding the reactor) and keeping any radioactive materials inside the power plant itself.

The problem of spent fuel storage Nuclear reactor operators must store spent fuel removed from reactor cores for several years at least, in large pools at reactor sites until the remaining heat from the uranium fuel cools sufficiently.

Klein said that the NRC's initial approach to the danger to reactor wiring in a fire would have imposed impossible conditions on some reactor operators, which have no practical way, for example, of relocating built - in wire channels to create more separation between wiring networks and backups.

But it took until 2001 for the NRC to require operators of reactors prone to the potential problem to check for it, a process that had not been completed at Davis - Besse.

The collaboration will also include the near - term objectives of confirming projected construction and operating costs, as well as the identification of a lead plant owner / operator for the reactor.

He determined that if the reactor operator walked out to the pool every hour & 1/2 and urinated in it, the evaporative loss would be made up for.

But in periods when industrial demand for electricity has been stronger, a reactor shutdown has sometimes forced grid operators to scramble.

Greenpeace had told them that the EPR and AP1000 reactor designs were untried and untested anywhere in the world; and that the vendors and operators of the potential new reactors had not yet presented firm plans for the longer - term storage of spent fuel.