The pool water volume provides a minimum of 30 days of passive cooling of the spent fuel assemblies following a loss of all electrical power without the need for additional water.
Not exact matches
Highest quality food - grade polymer is extruded into a crystal clear
pool of
water, creating a unique, resilient three - dimensional shape that is 90 % air by
volume.
After removal from the reactor core, spent fuel assemblies are placed in dedicated spent fuel storage racks in the below ground spent fuel
pool, which contains four times more
water volume for cooling per fuel assembly than current designs.
The sheer
volume of
water flowing over the falls amounts to 220,000 litres per second - enough to fill one Olympic sized swimming
pool in 11 seconds!
The sheer
volume of
water flowing over the falls amounts to 220,000 litres per second — enough to fill one Olympic sized swimming
pool in 11 seconds!
The difference in the role between LWR and SWR on a
volume of the ocean is like comparing a teaspoon of
water with a swimming
pool.
If we have a
pool being filled from three different sources, each of which varies substantially from minute to minute in its outflow, but the
volume of
water in the
pool increases steadilly, we know the net flow into the
pool is positive and the average flow per minute even though we may be completely in the dark as to which source provides the greatest contribution in any given minute.
Solar swimming
pool heater systems usually use unglazed collectors because they circulate relatively large
volumes of
water through the collector and capture nearly 80 percent of the solar energy available.
Glacier melt and episodes of increasingly violent rainfall over the single land mass — Pangaea — generated an ocean in which large
volumes of fresh
water pooled at the top.
«If the Earth's atmosphere were represented by a large swimming
pool filled with 3,200 gallons of
water: 2,498 gallons would be Nitrogen (78.084 % of atmosphere by
volume), 670 gallons would be Oxygen (20.9476 % of atmosphere by
volume), 30 gallons would be Argon (0.934 % of atmosphere by
volume), 1 gallon would be a mixture of Methane (0.002 %), Neon (0.001818 %), Helium (0.000524 %), Krypton (0.000114 %), Hydrogen (0.00005 %) and Xenon (0.0000087 %) and 1 gallon would be Carbon Dioxide (0.0314 % of atmosphere by
volume).
Pools and fountains that recirculate
water don't use a large
volume — and they don't have to resemble Lake Superior to offer nice ambience.
Your installation company can help you choose the correctly sized model based on the
volume and surface area of
water in your
pool.