Not exact matches
Officials
at the FitzPatrick
Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why
fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plant.
Any future discussion of
nuclear power will have to take a hard look
at regulation and safety, in particular the practice of storing spent
nuclear fuel rods on - site
Some 16 months after meltdown
at the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant, operations to remove the
nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun
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.
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.