The key risk of storing spent fuel at reactor sites is radiation exposure from spent fuel that has caught fire when it is stored in a pool.
By measuring the carbon compounds spewed out during the test, automakers can figure out how much fuel was spent and, subsequently, the vehicle's fuel economy.
They were working in Reactor No. 3 which is of particular concern because it is the only unit to use MOX fuel, which is reprocessed spent fuel mixed with plutonium.
All of the rods from the fuel core were put into the spent fuel pool above the reactor at that time.
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Nisbet sliced-and-diced information from several large campaign-finance databases like OpenSecrets.org and Maplight.org to estimate the amount of money environmental groups and the fossil-fuel industry spent on climate and energy campaigns.
Would it make sense to embrace some sort of closed-fuel cycle, with limited reprocessing of spent fuel?
Used fuel that has been cooled in a spent fuel pool for at least five years can be put into a container called a cask and surrounded with inert gas, providing leak-tight containment, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The company mines uranium, makes nuclear fuel, designs and builds reactors and reprocesses spent fuel.
The U.S. has supported a Russian proposal to provide Iran with nuclear fuel for civilian reactors as long as the spent fuel is then sent back to Russia.
The governments of Yemen and Indonesia, for example, spent more holding down the price of fuel than they spent on health and education combined.
The fuel, called MOX, takes uranium from spent fuel rods and mixes it with plutonium, creating a less stable fuel, one that is potentially far more dangerous in a meltdown.
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This unique feature enables LFTRs to consume their fuel so thoroughly that they can even use the spent fuel from other reactors, cleaning up our legacy of nuclear waste while producing a minuscule amount of waste themselves.
Creating international nuclear fuel banks and shared management of enrichment, reprocessing and spent fuel storage facilities would make nonproliferation sense as well as supporting civil nuclear power in energy-thirsty Asia.
Reactor operators typically discharge about one-third of the fuel assemblies every 18 months to 2 years and place this spent fuel in a pool to cool .
By then, they estimate, nuclear plants will have generated another 40, 000 metric tons of spent fuel.
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Is it still your assessment that that cooling pond with the spent fuel rods is now empty?
The agency is not adequately addressing deficiencies in its emergency evacuation planning and spent fuel storage standards.
However, one of its permanently-closed reactors on Long Island Sound did, and spent fuel rods remain on site.
Last month a power cut shut cooling systems for four spent fuel ponds.
In March, a power cut shut cooling systems for four spent fuel ponds.
How many excess thousands of gallons of fuel have been spent powering tractors across fields to spray and till?
What is more, Dr Filippone's results suggest that the spent fuel rods will continue to generate energy for 10-14 years.
Electricity is needed to keep the reactor cores covered with coolant and to keep safe temperatures in spent fuel pools.
But the dry casks holding spent fuel rods across the United States have not evolved along with their increasingly radioactive contents.
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That could be a problem if the time comes to transport spent fuel from reactor sites to a central storage facility.
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The conversations about where to store spent fuel and how communities would respond in the event of radiation leaks are healthy.
There are plans afoot to recover spent fuel from other countries, too.
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The pools of water are typically about 40 feet deep, with at least 20 feet of water covering the spent fuel .
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