Sentences with phrase «fuel rods began»
Nuclear fuel rods began melting and volatile hydrogen gas built up.
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If fuel rods remain uncovered, they may begin to melt, and hot, radioactive fuel can pool at the bottom of the vessel containing the reactor.
Some 16 months after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operations to remove the nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun
IN July 1999, two heavily armed cargo ships began carrying 225 kilograms of plutonium - containing fuel rods half way round the world, from Britain to Japan.
The fuel rod manufacturing process begins with tubes to which the lower plug has previously been welded at one end, and then the rod loading takes place, i.e. the pellets are inserted into the tubes.
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.
The agency was supposed to begin collecting spent nuclear fuel rods in 1998 and remains responsible for storing them.
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