Sentences with phrase «with sodium coolant»
It is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2013, when the reactor was filled with its sodium coolant and received the necessary permits from Russian nuclear regulator Rostechnadzor to begin the fuel loading and pre-startup tests.
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This fuel - together with sodium coolant and other radioactive waste - is to then be removed from Fukui Prefecture and reprocessed.
Not exact matches
An additional feature of metal fuel use in sodium is that the fuel does not chemically react with the coolant compared to oxide fuel pellets which dissolve in high temperature sodium.
Each PRISM reactor has an intermediate sodium loop that exchanges heat between the primary sodium coolant from the core with water / steam in a sodium / water steam generator.