Sentences with phrase «tons of spent nuclear fuel»
About 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel has been generated from the 104 licensed commercial nuclear plants and from 11 others no longer in operation.
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Unraveling the mysteries surrounding the # 4 pool will require discovering why water levels there fell so quickly and whether the 230 tons of spent nuclear fuel melted in addition to catching on fire.
The U.S. remains a nation in search of a solution for what to do with its nearly 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, which has a small fraction of plutonium mixed in it.
At the end of 2016 Japan had 14,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel stored at nuclear power plants, filling about 70 percent of its onsite storage capacity.
The nation's 104 reactors generate roughly 800 billion kilowatt - hours a year and contribute about 2,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel a year.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A plan to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in New Mexico is drawing fire from critics who say the federal government needs to consider more alternatives.
In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.
In the United States, about 70,000 metric tons of spent commercial nuclear fuel are located at more than 70 sites in 35 states.
The most damaged Daiichi reactor, number 3, contains about 90 tons of fuel, and the storage pool above reactor 4, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Gregory Jaczko reported yesterday had lost its cooling water, contains 135 tons of spent fuel.
The project involved developing the systems to remove 2,300 metric tons of deteriorating spent nuclear fuel from the water - filled basins near the Columbia River and transporting the fuel to a dry storage facility near the center of the Hanford site.
In the United States, some 60,000 tons of nuclear waste have already been produced, and existing reactors add some 2,000 metric tons of spent fuel annually.