Sentences with phrase «reactor units»

It is the only one of the six reactor units at the site with suspected damage to the reactor core.

The fire in the spent fuel store of reactor unit 4 has probably released the worst of the radioactive materials so far.

The facility's reactor units began commercial operation in 1974 and 1976.

The cable trench there contains much more radiation than those in the other three damaged reactor units.

Right now the researchers are working on scaling up the process for large - scale reactor units that can be used by cities.

Of preeminent concern were the pools in reactor Units 1 through 4: Those buildings had sustained heavy damage on 11 March and in subsequent days, when explosions occurred in Units 1, 3, and 4.

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

Borrowing a technique for making temporary subsurface barriers during tunnel construction, a contractor has driven 1500 pipes 30 meters down to bedrock, creating something akin to an underground picket fence encircling the four crippled reactor units.

Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said his staff in Tokyo had been told by Japanese utility officials that cooling water that normally covers spent fuel was nearly or totally gone from an uncovered concrete pool above reactor Unit 4.

Attempts are being made to remove radioactive materials from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reactor Unit 4, but much uncertainty remains about the future.

In exchange, PSEG Power has been granted an option to acquire an ownership interest in the technology, which paves the way for PSEG Power to be responsible for the training and operations of the SMR - 160 when the new reactor units are built.

A cluster of SMR - 160s, therefore, is more congenial to a power grid's stability than an equivalent single reactor unit.

The pressure vessel head has been installed at one of the two high - temperature gas - cooled reactor units that make up the demonstration HTR - PM plant under construction at Shidaowan in China's Shandong province.

Recall that the second and third reactor units at Davis - Besse and Perry were killed by the Sierra Club and Ralph Nader.

Beloyarsk 4 will be the most powerful fast reactor unit in the world at 789 MWe.

According to a report today (15 March) from the Japanese authorities, all four reactor units at Fukushima Daini are in «cold shutdown», which means that the temperature and operation of the reactors are fully under control.

The trench in reactor unit 2 is the most contaminated, with 1000 millisieverts of radiation per hour, exposure to which can cause acute radiation sickness.

The two reactor units can continue to operate as long as the relicensing process continues.

Using robotic probes and 3 - D imaging with muons (a type of subatomic particle), workers have found pebbly deposits and debris at various areas inside the primary containment vessels in the three of the plant's reactor units.

When the disaster knocked out off - and on - site power supplies on March 11, 2011, three of the cooling systems for the plant's four reactor units were disabled.

This destroyed the roof and outer shell of the reactor unit, but apparently left the reactor itself intact.

Two of the reactor units on site were severely affected by flooding.

The reactor units would be factory built, delivered on trucks and dropped into place — anywhere as they don't need water cooling — for decades of hands free operation powering 350,000 houses per unit.

Under existing policy, owners of nuclear power plants pay a premium each year for $ 375 million in private insurance for offsite liability coverage for each reactor unit.