They executed a preprogrammed response and began to drive all of the long control rods into the three reactors that were currently operating at the site.

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Lawrence, the pools--with names like Seal and Snag--broaden, requiring long casts with big rods.

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The paper fails to mention is that the fuel rods are approximately 12-feet long.

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However, one of its permanently-closed reactors on Long Island Sound did, and spent fuel rods remain on site.

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Then it's pumped back in to carry more heat away from the plant's fuel rods, which continue producing energy long after the chain reaction at the heart of the units has been stopped.

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Long carbon steel refers to tubular steel and steel rods, which are used almost completely for the construction of buildings and bridges.

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With a 15m-long bar and a luminous chandelier made up of 11, 000 glass rods, the sparkling interior echoes the view below.

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There is a massive, wraparound glass staircase, and dropping down from the 24-foot-tall ceiling is a 12-foot-long "found art" light sculpture made by a local artist with steel rods and old trumpets, toy train tracks and parts of old pistons.

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