Sentences with phrase «fuel pools located»

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.

It is a light water reactor with the reactor, steam generator, and spent fuel pool located inside the containment.

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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»).