Hours after the fuel rods started to melt, the heat.
在燃料棒开始融化后一段时间里，热量可能融化四到八英寸厚的反应堆的容器钢壁。
The reactor they were studying operated on fuel rods.
核查人员检查的反应堆以燃料棒为燃料。
The fuel rods are bundled together in the core of the reactor.
燃料棒被束在一起放置于反应堆的核心。
The main problem was the lack of water to cool spent fuel rods.
目前其主要问题就是缺乏足够的水来冷却废弃的核燃料棒。
The fuel rods' zirconium casings then begin to react with the steam.
燃料棒的锆合金棒体开始和蒸汽反应。
They are not contained in the same kind of vessel as active fuel rods.
和使用中的激活燃料棒不同的是，这些用过的燃料棒没有存放在相同类型的容器中。
Of greatest concern are the spent fuel rods stored at reactor Nos. 3 and 4.
最令人担忧的是存放在3号和4号反应堆的用过的核燃料棒。
The material would then have been sent on to France to be turned into fuel rods.
原料本应送到法国制成条形燃料。
But they do not stop spontaneous fissions in fuel rods from fuel and fission products.
但他们并没有阻止自然地发生在来自核燃料和裂变产物的燃料棒上的裂变。
Mixed oxide fuel rods are partly made of plutonium. These fuel rods are partly exposed.
混合氧化物燃料棒含钚，这些燃料棒已经部分暴露。
The storage pools, which contain used fuel rods, also need a constant supply of water.
用来存放核废料的储存池也需要立刻灌水冷却。
On Saturday, specialists from both countries loaded uranium packed fuel rods into the reactor.
星期六，两国的专家们把装有铀的核燃料棒加载进核反应堆。
Under the pact, Russia will supply the fuel for Bushehr and then take back the spent fuel rods.
根据条约，俄罗斯为布什尔提供核燃料，同时回收废核燃料棒。
Japanese experts say the fuel rods inside the reactor were fully exposed to the air and melted.
日本专家说，反应堆内的燃料棒完全与空气接触并融毁。
With the cooling system down, the water that surrounds the nuclear fuel rods began to burn off.
在冷却系统失灵的情况下，核燃料棒周围的水开始蒸发。
Mixed oxide (MOX) fuel rods, partly composed of especially toxic plutonium are partially exposed.
含有特别具有毒性的钸成分的混合氧化物燃料棒部分曝露。
If the fuel rods became damaged they would release radioactive material into the remaining coolant.
如果燃料棒损坏，放射性物质会进到剩余的冷却剂中。
They switched to military fire engines to douse the reactors and the pools of spent fuel rods beside them.
他们换成军用消防栓来冷却反应堆和燃料池。
The company stores spent fuel rods on its premises because there is no consensus on where else to put them.
公司在经营场所储存了大量的废弃燃料棒是因为没有就它们的存放点达成一致意见。
Then, hours later, a new problem sent the water levels plummeting again and left the fuel rods fully exposed.
然而一小时之后，一个新问题使得冷却水位骤降，燃料棒完全暴露在外。
Some of the salt might be settling to the bottom of the reactor vessel rather than sticking to the fuel rods.
部分盐也许会沉入反应堆容器的底部，而不会粘在燃料棒上。
"Reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponised, " it said.
据信中透露：“乏燃料棒再处理已经进入了最后阶段，与此同时镮的武器化也正在进行。”
Japanese workers are scrambling to control a nuclear plant after a fire that may have burned several fuel rods.
日本的一个核电站发生火灾后，可能已经烧掉几个核燃料棒，日本工人们正艰难地掌控着它。
The Plutonium is thought to have come from some of the plant's fuel rods found in each of the troubled reactors.
据推测放射性钚元素来自受损核反应堆的核燃料棒.
Once the reactor's control rods are between sections of fuel rods, how is fission slowed to where it is controllable?
一旦反应堆的控制杆置于核燃料棒的中间了，我们应该怎么将裂变减慢到我们可控制的程度呢？
Apart from America, which supplied the Tehran reactor in the 1960s, only France and Argentina can make the right fuel rods.
除了1960年代提供德黑兰反应炉的美国之外，目前只有法国和阿根廷会制造燃料棒。
The big question is how much of that salt is still mixed with water and how much now forms a crust on the uranium fuel rods.
主要的问题在于这些盐中又多少还溶于水中，又有多少现在在铀燃料棒表面形成了一层外壳。
As water levels dipped, fuel rods were likely exposed to air, increasing the chances of melting-and of a catastrophic meltdown.
随着水位下降，核燃料棒有可能暴露在空气中，从而增加了反应堆融化的可能性。
As water levels dipped, fuel rods were likely exposed to air, increasing the chances of melting-and of a catastrophic meltdown.
随着水位下降，核燃料棒有可能暴露在空气中，从而增加了反应堆融化的可能性。
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