Sentences with phrase «reactor sites»

Used fuel is currently stored at reactor sites around the country.

In the meantime, nuclear waste continues to accumulate at nuclear reactor sites, with nearly three - quarters of it sitting in increasingly crowded cooling pools, with no end in sight.

With no permanent waste repository in sight, the nuclear industry is storing spent fuel at reactor sites.

Instead of consolidated storage, community organizations in all 50 states have supported keeping spent nuclear fuel at or near reactor sites in hardened on - site storage (HOSS) until a scientifically sound, publicly accepted repository program is in place.

The problem of spent fuel storage Nuclear reactor operators must store spent fuel removed from reactor cores for several years at least, in large pools at reactor sites until the remaining heat from the uranium fuel cools sufficiently.

DTS equipment has been used with research reactor and MTR fuel assemblies at facilities in Taiwan, Iraq, Chile, Colombia, and Greece over the past several years, as well as several research reactor sites in North America.

Fuel units must be stored initially in pools at reactor sites for about five years, until the decay heat drops enough to permit movement into dry cask containers.

It also assumes that 45 new nuclear power plants could be built by 2030, using existing reactor sites, adding 64 gigawatts of new capacity.

But multiple reactor sites proved problematic at Fukushima Daiichi, where an accident in one rapidly became a crisis for multiple reactors and spent fuel pools.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) relied on faulty analysis to justify its refusal to adopt a critical measure for protecting Americans from the occurrence of a catastrophic nuclear - waste fire at any one of dozens of reactor sites around the country, according to an article in the May 26 issue of Science magazine.

About 2,800 metric tons (4 percent) of fuel is at the shutdown reactor sites.

The ARC would be located at the PRISM reactor site, and would likely use a patented electrometallurgical process in order to separate and isolate the uranium from the spent nuclear fuel.

The paintings were created by laminating digital transparencies, which depict areas near the mouth of the Columbia and at the Hanford reactor sites, between glass and mirror.

No permanent waste repository (thanks, Sen. Reid), no appetite for new reactor siting by the public, and no interest by the funding community.

We soon meet Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) a seismologist working at a nuclear reactor site in Japan.

Since fuel re-processing is not commercially available in the United States and has not been shown to be commercially viable n this country, spent fuel is typically being held in temporary storage at reactor sites until a permanent long - term waste disposal option becomes available.

The process to select the location of PROSPECT was competitive; HFIR and other U.S. research reactor sites were assessed.

Last fall, the group told lawmakers that a nuclear waste policy should focus on a consent - based approach, rather than one focused on Yucca Mountain, that is «technically sound» and requires that SNF is managed safely and securely at reactor sites until a repository becomes available.

The groundwater is releasing the cesium into the coastal ocean at a rate that's on par with the leakage of cesium into the ocean from the reactor site itself, Sanial's team estimates.

The NRC analysis found that a fire in a spent - fuel pool at an average nuclear reactor site would cause $ 125 billion in damages, while expedited transfer of spent fuel to dry casks could reduce radioactive releases from pool fires by 99 percent.

Published by researchers from Princeton University and the Union of Concerned Scientists, the article argues that NRC inaction leaves the public at high risk from fires in spent - nuclear - fuel cooling pools at reactor sites.

ITER, which is poised to begin construction at the reactor site in southern France, has yet to gain final approval for its design, schedule, and cost, collectively known as the project's baseline.

To create another $ 111 million in savings, Motojima proposed to the council changes to the «in - kind» components that are being built and paid for by each member and then delivered to the reactor site at Cadarache in France for assembly.

However, crops and other vegetation near the reactor site (including grass that cows eat to produce milk) that receive fallout from the atmosphere build up radioactivity and can remain contaminated even if washed.

The removed «spent» fuel then is placed into deep pools of water at the reactor site, where it continues to generate heat and radiation (Figure 1).

TEPCO was also criticized for keeping a large inventory of spent fuel rods in cooling ponds on the reactor site.

However, crops and other vegetation near the reactor site (including grass that cows eat to produce milk) that receive fallout from the atmosphere build up radioactivity and can remain contaminated even if washed.