Sentences with phrase «fuel rods before»

Russian plants have remotely controlled machines that strip off the zirconium from their own fuel rods before reprocessing.

That could allow reactor operators to squeeze extra energy out of fuel rods before refueling: The rods are typically replaced after four or five years in a reactor, and degradation of the cladding is a major limitation on their longevity.

Not exact matches

The pool held the entire complement of fuel rods from the reactor's core, which had been emptied 3 months before the 11 March earthquake and tsunami struck.

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.

But those spent fuel rods pose a meltdown danger too (I didn't realize that before).