Under a Westinghouse contract, NAC provided comprehensive services to transport
irradiated fuel from Exelon's Braidwood nuclear power plant (Illinois) to the Studsvik hot cell in Sweden for post-irradiation examination.
Irradiated fuel from Nuclear Electric's advanced gas cooled reactors was expected to be processed at Sellafield, in the thermal oxide reprocessing plant, which still needs government approval to begin operating.
Not exact matches
The
fuel engineering in ENUSA covers all technical aspects of the lifetime of the nuclear
fuel,
from conceptual development and introduction of new products for irradiation in commercial PWR and BWR reactors to
fuel storage and transport in dry casks as
irradiated fuel.
The truth is that the
irradiated fuel in the Unit 4 spent
fuel pool does pose some hazard and the prudent management of that risk is to remove it
from its present location to a safer, more secure location.
They may not alone
irradiate the use of fossils entirely, but wind farms will reduce the amount of fossil
fuels that is needed, and therefore help to protect the planet
from pollution.