Sentences with phrase «liquid sodium leaked»

However, it was shut down after just four months when about 700 kilograms of liquid sodium leaked from the secondary cooling loop.

However, it was shut down only four months later after about 700 kilograms of liquid sodium leaked from the secondary cooling loop and, although there were no injuries and no radioactivity escaped plant buildings, this was compounded by operator attempts to cover up the scale of the damage.

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The French government ordered it to be shut down in 1987 and again two years ago after persistent leaks in its liquid sodium cooling circuits.

Superphenix the French fast - breeder reactor shut down in 1990 because air leaked into its liquid sodium coolant, can not start up again until a public inquiry has been held, Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy announced this week.

Hans Bethe, Manhattan Project scientist and Nobel laureate, calculated in 1956 that if a breeder's liquid sodium coolant leaked out, it could melt in 40 seconds, become a small unintended atom bomb and spontaneously explode.