It is a light water reactor with the reactor, steam generator, and spent
fuel pool located inside the containment.
There is currently no approved national repository to begin removing it from temporary spent
fuel pools located on - site at Indian Point and other U.S. nuclear power plants across the country.
Not exact matches
This problem continues to grow because there remains no place for used nuclear
fuel rod storage other than such
pools or massive dry casks — both
located on nuclear facility grounds.
The NuScale Power ModulesTM reactor
pool and the spent
fuel pool are
located at or below nominal plant grade level, while the hoisting and handling equipment is
located above grade.
Response: The nuclear material in an SMR - 160 plant (both the reactor vessel and the
fuel pool) is
located deep in the ground.
However, the spent
fuel storage
pool located inside the containment causes pressurisation inside the containment due to the water boiling out in the
pool.
This project replaces conventional residential fossil
fuel combustion heating with solar heating systems
located at private residences and commercial swimming
pool locations across Canada.
Another consideration, as Rita Sipe, manager of Duke Energy's Nuclear Fleet Communications, in February told POWER, is that used
fuel pools and dry cask storage sites, which Duke has
located at five of the company's six operating nuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom»).