Sentences with phrase «of fuel assemblies»

As the level fell perilously close to the top of the fuel assemblies, something «fortuitous» happened, Shepherd says.

Therefore, the primary objective of this report is to factually and analytically approach the current and expected future direction of the nuclear - grade zirconium market to help formulate clear conclusions about how producers of fuel assemblies for nuclear reactors will obtain the necessary zirconium for their finished products.

JAEA claims that the safety of fuel assemblies and some equipment and piping will be confirmed based on consideration of time history waveforms.

Nuclear - grade zirconium alloys and products are used in the fabrication of fuel assemblies, which are used in the vast majority of nuclear reactor designs either currently operating, under construction, or planned around the world.

Its high technical content, need for regulatory approval, and the restriction of fuel assemblies to specific reactors require a unique approach to its analysis.

In ENUSA we manufacture nuclear fuel in our Juzbado facility (Salamanca), where the activities focus on procurement of the uranium and components required for the process and on the engineering and manufacturing of fuel assemblies for Spanish and European nuclear power plants, using the most innovative technologies and latest market advances.

Without that leakage, the academy panel's own modeling predicted that the tops of the fuel assemblies would have been exposed by early April; as the water continued to evaporate, the odds of the assemblies» zirconium cladding catching fire would have skyrocketed.