Sentences with phrase «fuel rods remains»

Critics question the announcement, but a cold shutdown is when water used to cool nuclear fuel rods remains below boiling point, preventing the fuel from reheating

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.

Not exact matches

And a fire at a pool storing spent fuel rods at dormant reactor No. 4 is posing additional hazards to the few workers remaining at the site.

This problem continues to grow because there remains no place for used nuclear fuel rod storage other than such pools or massive dry casks — both located on nuclear facility grounds.

In the interim — which could stretch for a century — used fuel rods will remain where they are: at nuclear power plants themselves either in spent fuel pools or in giant concrete casks on pads.

The agency was supposed to begin collecting spent nuclear fuel rods in 1998 and remains responsible for storing them.

Perhaps they aren't capable of destroying nuclear power stations today, or weaponizing spent fuel rods in order to blow up cities, but how long do you expect that to remain the case?

Hence, for the time being and perhaps for a long time, the spent fuel rods will remain at the power plants by default.

Five years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the site still teems with 7,000 workers attempting to contain its radioactive water and debris, while radiation remains hot enough to fry the wiring in robots ferreting out melted fuel rods.