Sentences with phrase «fuel pools now»
And that means there may be two direct paths for radioactive particle byproducts of nuclear fission, such as cesium 137 and iodine 131, to escape and spread radiation — cracks in containment as well as the spent fuel pools now open to the air.
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In addition, one of the emergency diesel units can now be operated and will be used to supply unit 5 and 6 alternately to inject water to their used fuel pools.
The nuclear spent fuel produced during 14 years of operation at Rancho Seco was kept cool in a water pool on site and is now in protective dry storage.
It took years for the robots to be designed and built for the specific task of swimming through the underwater tunnels of the now - defunct cooling pools of the Reactor 3 building to remove hundreds of melted fuel rods.