Sentences with phrase «fuel pool recently»
The fuel had been moved from reactor No. 4's core to its spent - fuel pool recently, so «that fuel is relatively fresh and hotter, thermally,» Resnikoff explained.
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Tom Clements, southeastern nuclear campaign coordinator of Friends of the Earth, said the fuel in pool No. 4 was hotter than in the plant's other pools because it had more recently been transferred into the pool.
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 recently developed GLBRC technology, UW — Madison's John Ralph, Michigan State's Curtis Wilkerson and the University of British Columbia's Shawn Mansfield pooled their diverse expertise to engineer poplar trees whose plant walls contain a modified form of the polymer lignin to make them easier to degrade for conversion to fuel.
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.