Sentences with phrase «store radioactive material»

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.

Not exact matches

«You don't have to store (spent radioactive materials) for hundreds of thousands of years.

So comparing the positions of electrons in atoms at different spots on walls, windows and floors could provide a rough snapshot of where radioactive material was once stored and how strong it was, researchers report online July 3 in Health Physics.

This component is only mildly radioactive and, if separated from the fission products and the rest of the material in the spent fuel, could readily be stored safely for future use in lightly protected facilities.

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

The pools — water - filled basins that store and cool used radioactive fuel rods — are so densely packed with nuclear waste that a fire could release enough radioactive material to contaminate an area twice the size of New Jersey.

One category of highly radioactive material, which ends up stored in glass «logs» for burial, is reduced, he said.

The new study revealed a previously unsuspected pathway for radioactive material to be transported, stored for years, and subsequently released far from the site where it was initially discharged.

Whether what being stored, it's a chair or gold brick, or dangerous radioactive material?

For those who stuff their feelings and keep it from coming out, it's like storing a combustible, radioactive material inside your body.