Sentences with phrase «spent fuel rods»

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

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.

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

Entergy will also move a set yearly number of spent fuel rods from their dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site — a much safer solution for this radioactive material.

Meshkati expressed concern over the practice of storing spent fuel rods on - site, a product of the risk - based approach to nuclear safety, and what he sees as a conflict of interest at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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

While we absorb background radiation every day, standing next to a newly removed reactor spent fuel rod for a few seconds will kill you, David Lochbaum, the Union of Concerned Scientists» (UCS) nuclear safety engineer, calculates.

The fact that it takes only 8.8 pounds of plutonium to produce an atomic bomb in the one - kiloton range makes spent fuel rods an alluring target for sophisticated revolutionary groups.

It is commonly recognized that the radioactivity and extreme toxicity of nuclear reactor postfission effluent and spent fuel rods constitute a hazard to human health and safety.

Heath said nuclear power produces spent fuel rods which are radioactive and require constant maintenance.

The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, often contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and may contain actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium - 234, neptunium - 237, plutonium - 238 and americium - 241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as Cf.

Out of work, Hayashi found a second job at Fukushima, this time building a concrete base for tanks to hold spent fuel rods.

Safety will be a major concern, particularly as emergency workers in Japan continue battling to keep spent fuel rods stored on site at Fukushima Daiichi from melting down.

The Trump administration has said it wants to put Yucca back on track to receive radioactive spent fuel rods now stored at dozens of nuclear power plants around the nation.

To ensure that moving spent radioactive fuel is being carried out with the minimum of risks, Sandia National Laboratories recently completed a nuclear «triathlon» of a simulated cargo of spent fuel rods over 14,500 mi to record the stress and jolts that fuel undergoes in transit.

We used to reprocess spent fuel rods until 1/2 ton of enriched uranium somehow wound up in Israel.

LFTRs consume 100 % of the thorium fed to them and can be started with spent fuel rods or old nuclear warheads.

Annually, Entergy will be responsible for moving a set number of spent fuel rods from its dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site - a much safer technology for storing radioactive material.

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

But on 15 March a fire broke out in the pond where spent fuel rods are stored.

Appearing on Albany radio, Astorino called the closure plan «one of the most significant» environmental actions in state history that will result in spent fuel rods on the site for at least six decades and will make the land «undevelopable, dangerous.»

The Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act has mandated that deep - mine disposal of high - level radioactive effluent and spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological sites are screaming foul.

February 21, 2005: Seoul's semi-official Yonhap News Agency reports that South Korea's defense minister, Yoon Kwang - ung, tells a National Assembly Committee that North Korea has reprocessed «only part» of the 8,000 spent fuel rods from the Yongbyon reactor.

It is likely to increase the already hefty cost of building reactors and increase the complaints of regulators and nearby communities that are already upset at the storage of spent fuel rods, Mariotte said.

• Of greatest concern are the spent fuel rods stored at reactor Nos. 3 and 4.

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

Spent fuel rods in plants such as Chelyabinsk - 65 are first dissolved in nitric acid.

NAC was responsible for the design, fabrication and delivery of specialized packaging containers and equipment to clean, canisterize, and stabilize (by vacuum drying and thermal conditioning) 8,000 spent fuel rods from the research reactor in Nyongbyon, North Korea.

Hours earlier, Gregory Jaczko, the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told Congress that spent fuel rods in Unit 4 of the plant had been exposed, resulting in the emission of «extremely high» levels of radiation.

Although nuclear waste is more hazardous, its overall volume would be a lot less and spent fuel rods can be reprocessed to extract more energy.

But the cooling system for both the reactor cores and the onsite - stored spent fuel rods was not designed to withstand a «once - in - a-millennium» tsunami.

The out - of - control status of the 6 Fukushima nuclear reactors and their stored spent fuel rods is a textbook example of «Don't Know Squared — It's What You Don't Know You Don't Know» that can bring down any system designed by humanity.

Once the relatively clean - running nuclear plant is online, it produces radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods.

If there is no unplanned release and spent fuel rods and containment vessel is removed there is nothing of half life concern left.