Sentences with phrase «fuel rods into»

Back at the base, a sort of chunky 1970s computer sits around, waiting for its owner to shove giant fuel rods into its side.

Generally speaking, this final operation in the process consists of inserting the fuel rods into the support skeleton and finally installing nozzles and support structures.

Not exact matches

Plutonium and uranium are converted into chemical compounds called oxides, and mixed together in fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants.

This is the case because even when fission is stopped by driving neutron - absorbing control rods into a reactor core, radioactivity still warms the fuel rods.

Enriched uranium is manufactured into fuel rods that are encased in metal cladding made of alloys such as zirconium.

The high temperatures that the fuel rods create boil water and continually turn it into steam.

That is also enough to meet almost half the fuel needs of the 104 U.S. reactors, once various plants located throughout the country shape this uranium into half - inch -(1.27 - centimeter --RRB- diameter black pellets and then form them into rods by coating the pellets with zirconium cladding.

That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or «zircaloy» — the material used as fuel - rod cladding in all water - cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world's power reactors.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

After a decade of study, biochemist James Hurley at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues have now shown that the retina's rods and cones burn the glucose, convert leftovers into a fuel called lactate, and then feed that back to the RPE.

The most logical solution, experts say, would be to send the 9700 kilograms of LEU to Russia for conversion into fuel rods for Iran's Russian - built Bushehr nuclear reactor, in operation since 2011.

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.

• Ceramic process in which uranium oxide powder is used to manufacture pellets; these pellets are inserted into zirconium alloy tubes which, once they are loaded, pressurized and sealed, are called fuel rods.

A true 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air custom 2 - door hardtop that has been transformed into a high - performance, fuel - injected hot rod.

With new heads, fuel - injection system, intake manifold, six - into - one exhaust manifolds and new crankshaft, rods and pistons, the V12 makes 59 hp more than the previous - model F12 Berlinetta and F12tdf.

With the ECU and built - in sensors integrated into the throttle body, the Atomic EFI throttle - body kit is an easy upgrade to electronic fuel injection for musclecars, trucks or hot rods.

Lot # 1125 - A true 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air custom 2 - door hardtop that has had its heart and soul transformed into a high - performance, fuel - injected hot rod.

There are so many other things that we are trying to bring into the real world like the fuel rods, the energy drinks, the escapism, the computer game.

Most pressurized water reactors (PWR, the type I worked on in the U.S. Navy) use water around the fuel rods to both and transfer heat away fro the fuel to do work and reflect neutrons back into the fuel rods.

says Rod, >... unrestricted gaseous waste dumping into our shared atmosphere is a bad idea, especially when there is a lower energy cost alternative that can provide even more reliable power than fossil fuels can.

That is, the enormous amounts of energy that go into making the plants (particularly in concrete but also in various steels) and the fuel rods (mining, milling, enriching, fabricating) is not at all insubstantial.