Sentences with phrase «of irradiated fuel»
Private Fuel Storage (PFS) is a consortium of eight nuclear utilities that since 1996 has pursued using reservation land of the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes about 45 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah for the «temporary» storage of irradiated fuel.
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After conversion of the university reactor at Texas A&M to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuel, NAC provided one NAC - LWT cask for the transport of 84 irradiated High Enriched Uranium (HEU) TRIGA type fuel assemblies to the DOE site of Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
Response: The Fukushima accident happened when flooding of power plant safety systems caused by the tsunami prevented operation of pumps needed to cool the nuclear fuel within the reactor and the fuel storage pools, causing that irradiated fuel to overheat.
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.
Attempting to remove irradiated fuel years ago before shoring up the building and proving the capability of the transfer equipment would have been irresponsible.
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.