Sentences with phrase «fuel rods which»

Heath said nuclear power produces spent fuel rods which are radioactive and require constant maintenance.

Not exact matches

Fuel rods are an interesting proposition but surely if the issue is that there will be protests why don't we go the path of least resistance and kick start the solar industry which is sustainable and could employ large numbers of unemployed or under employed.

Trump's frustration with the investigation was further fueled when the home and office of his longtime lawyer Cohen were raided, which enraged Trump and caused him to openly discuss firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the Mueller probe.

Exelon Corp., owner of Nine Mile Point, estimated it would cost about $ 125 million to resupply FitzPatrick with uranium fuel rods next fall, which would allow the plant to continue operating two years beyond when plant owner Entergy Corp. plans to shut it down, the administration official said.

• Workers at the plant are trying to keep all fuel rods under water, which cools the rods (thereby preventing fires and explosions) and blocks radiation.

During a nuclear meltdown, uranium dioxide fuel, fuel rod components and even the reactor become superheated — as much as 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit — and melt together to form corium, which can eat through containment systems.

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.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

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.

Fuel rods have a zirconium metal coating which can explode when it is oxidised by nitric acid during reprocessing.

The Fukushima Daiichi site in total has some 11,000 such fuel rods in the seven spent fuel pools — 500 or more of which in reactor No. 4's spent fuel pool are still quite hot having only been removed from that reactor in December, according to The New York Times.

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.

The FHD was certified by the NRC in 2001 and was extensively used to dehydrate Trojan's fuel assemblies, a number of which had water - laden fuel rods.

Unlike the current generation of light - water nuclear reactors, PRISM uses metallic fuel, such as an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and PRISM's fuel rods sit in a bath of a liquid metal — sodium — at atmospheric pressure, which ensures that the transfer of heat from the metal fuel to the liquid sodium coolant is extremely efficient.

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.

But this will not be enough, you will have to increase the compression ratio to 11, which means that you need to buy high compression pistons, lightweight connecting rods, a lightweight flywheel and H22A fuel injectors.

First, there is the engine, a real marvel of engineering using precisely programmed variable valve timing and direct fuel injection, which bears as much resemblance to an old, carburetor push - rod engine as a Mac Pro does to a slide rule.

Plants have safely stored spent fuel rods (which is the correct descriptor, not waste) since the early 60's on site.

Rod, CO2 from breathing comes from carbon which has been eaten, which is from the biosphere, not from fossil fuels.

Some deal with a transmission shift cable adjuster problem, sudden hood openings, a wiring problem with a seatbelt harness, the non-deployment of the «side impact restraints», which includes side airbags, possible tie - rods separation and loss of steering, fire possibilities, fuel tank and fuel pump problems and the ignition issues.