Sentences with phrase «spent fuel»

The water level is low at reactor No. 4's spent fuel pool as well.

Maybe they can put 50 years worth of spent fuel rods in plastic bags and store them in your backyard.

Fast reactors can thus minimize the risk that spent fuel from energy production would be used for weapons production, while providing a unique ability to squeeze the maximum energy out of nuclear fuel.

But it makes no related policy recommendations, saying the Japanese disaster only strengthens the report's call for more research on spent fuel storage.

And a fire at a pool storing spent fuel rods at dormant reactor No. 4 is posing additional hazards to the few workers remaining at the site.

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

That will maintain the status quo for dealing with spent fuel, a process which involves companies suing the federal government to recover their costs.

«Requirements for on - site spent fuel management may increase and design basis threats may be elevated,» the report says.

Also, leaks from the other reactor's pools holding spent fuel have reached the river, the department said.

After that, the cooled spent fuel is removed, cleared and stored using natural air flow for cooling.

Instead, its long - term plan is to store such spent fuel in a specialized facility before constructing a final disposal site.

Some utilities have packed four times as many spent fuel rods into temporary holding pools than the structures were designed to contain.

The transportation of spent fuel elements takes place approximately every two or three years in special thick - walled special containers.

Here you will learn how to look t the food as a fuel to your body, and how to best spend that fuel to make your body as good as you want to.

What is the alternative to on - site spent fuel storage?

An increased spending fuels the economy, leading to lower unemployment.

When auxiliary batteries were exhausted, the plant was without power to continue cooling reactor cores and spent fuel pools.

Here's a snippet of video (much more coming soon) from our stop in the thick - walled building housing the pool for spent fuel from Indian Point 3, one of the two active reactors at the plant:

Under the Foreign Research Reactor (FRR) program, NAC received a contract from the European Commission to remove a total of 420 HEU spent fuel assemblies from the Dutch Petten reactor located north of Amsterdam using two campaigns of five NAC - LWT casks.

These could include new measures to extend plant protection when outside and backup alternating current power and new instrumentation to monitor conditions in spent fuel pools in emergencies.

Its five reactors, which used to produce plutonium for bombs, have now been closed down, but Mayak still reprocesses spent fuel from civilian reactors.

The nuclear spent fuel produced during 14 years of operation at Rancho Seco was kept cool in a water pool on site and is now in protective dry storage.

August 14, 1972 - Frank Pittman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) announces that the salt beds of southeastern New Mexico will host a $ 25 million pilot facility for commercial spent fuel.

RBT - 6 and RBT - 10 / 2 are pool - type reactors that use spent fuel assemblies of the SM reactor.

Once - through A fuel cycle in which spent fuel is not reprocessed but sent to short or long term storage.

NRC has estimated that a major fire in a U.S. spent fuel pool would displace, on average, 3.4 million people from an area larger than New Jersey.

Among the report's more controversial proposals is a plan to move spent fuel out of Indian Point in Buchanan along with 16 other power plants without direct access to railroad lines, by barge, down the Hudson River.

Iran has agreed to work with the international community to reconfigure Arak to run on low enriched uranium, which would greatly curtail plutonium production, and ship all spent fuel out of the country for the reactor's lifetime.

The department — which Perry as a 2012 presidential candidate promised to abolish, although he famously forgot its name during a debate — is charged with the politically volatile process of developing an underground repository for highly radioactive spent fuel from commercial power plants at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Neff said the consequences of exposed spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are not clear.

But as of 15 March there are reports of temperatures rising in ponds where spent fuel rods stored.

A major spent fuel fire at a U.S. nuclear plant «could dwarf the horrific consequences of the Fukushima accident,» says Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., who was not on the panel.

When technicians remove the depleted fuel, only about one twentieth of the potentially fissionable atoms in it (uranium 235, plutonium and uranium 238) have been used up, so the so - called spent fuel still contains about 95 percent of its original energy.

«US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate.»

This item has been corrected 1 April: The original article stated that Henry Sokolski said that the law gave the U.S. «extensive» legal rights over spent fuel it sold to other countries and that it could ask for fuel back if it didn't like how the fuel was being handled.

I'm convinced that the United States will be better off keeping existing nuclear power stations running, where their management can be demonstrated to be reliable, rather than initiating a decades - long decommissioning process that would not resolve community concerns about spent fuel and many other sources of risk.

TEPCO may have made the problem worse, according to some experts, by storing more spent fuel in some of the pools than they could safely cool.

It would be great if there was a new generation of replacement reactors that was safe, cost - effective, and reliable and if there was a satisfactory resolution to the problem of nuclear wastes and accumulating spent fuel.

If the United States does not like the way U.S. - origin spent fuel is being recycled, it can veto that activity.

The NuScale spent fuel pool is a below - grade, stainless steel lined concrete pool adjacent to the reactor pool.

Based on its experience developing other spent fuel transport and storage systems, NAC established a capacity for the UMS that was large enough to economically meet utility needs, but within a reasonable licensing envelope to allow early deployment, a strategy that proved to be quite successful.

Looks like that US nuclear customers paying at most $ 0.003 / kWh for decommissioning and spent fuel fund are doing pretty well.

Instrumentation on spent fuel pools would be unavailable if power were lost, which would require workers to visually inspect water levels — «an unacceptable requirement under some scenarios,» the NRC said.

Densely packed spent fuel without water can heat enough to burst its zirconium cladding and, ultimately, set the cladding ablaze.