Sentences with phrase «fuel rods held»
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Worse: without cooling, the fuel rods continue to meltdown and may completely burst the zirconium cladding — a ceramic material — that holds them together.
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Out of work, Hayashi found a second job at Fukushima, this time building a concrete base for tanks to hold spent fuel rods.
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.