Puppeteers make the figures from leather or paper and manipulate them by means of rods to create the illusion of moving images.
They were the kind of reinforcing rods that you pour concrete around to reinforce and strengthen it.
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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And most of all, maybe he gave teen-agers a culture of their own -- songs to dance to, hairstyles and clothes to copy, visions of hot rods to drive.
If the U.S. finds a place for its nuclear waste to go, some fuel assemblies will have to be removed from casks and transferred to transportation packs, a dangerous enough task without the prospect of fuel rods ruptured or crumbling.
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On the face of it, these measures of success appear to be reasonable measuring rods of the worthiness of YIISA's continued operation.
The company, which dates back to a turn-of-the-century maker of brass curtain rods in upstate New York, had grown quickly in the 1980s and 1990s by acquiring manufacturers of office supplies and housewares.
Most teams brought an average of two dozen rods between them, all rigged differently for different conditions.
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He was wearing white chinos and a shiny black short-sleeved shirt, decorated with fluorescent images of vintage hot rods.
We got a another thrill just after noon, when one of the larger rods on the boat's back rail bent sharply.
Tepco fears some of the fuel rods may become exposed if the water in their storage pools is allowed to boil down too low.
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Large mechanical rollers shape pool-cue sized rods of silver, there's the sound of metal being worked, and the smell of gas in the air.
The nuclear industry has about doubled the potency of nuclear fuel rods since 1970, allowing plants to stay online longer between refueling outages and to produce less waste.
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But the idea of a team making up a locomotive made more sense back in the old days, when a variety of wheels and rods propelled the machine together.
Fashion is a fickle mistress and a hundred years after they were last seen at the "Chelsea" of the day, gnomes from round the country are yet again heading back to the sacred showground of all things horticultural, fishing rods, toadstools and of course, gardening spades, packed and at the ready!
There had been a turn-out of sawyers, and Garland and three others, who were working there as knobsticks, were returning to Manchester (it being Saturday evening), when about half a mile from the new church, four men rushed from behind a cart going the opposite way, and which had concealed them, and attacked Garland and the others with bludgeons and rods of iron.
"It is our understanding that one of the eight connecting rods on the engine was ruled too light, " the statement said.
Eugene Kurz, 41, from Toronto, cut his finger while playing, pinching it as he pushed one of his metal control rods.
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That could have led to a loss of water and eventually to the exposure of the spent fuel rods to air, releasing radiation.
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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Mr Ball next treats us to a brisk description of the human eye (remember rods and cones from school biology?), an explanation of why Newton was right and Goethe wrong about the composite character of white light, and an account of the 19th-century regimentation of the continuous colour spectrum by means of colour wheels and other classifying devices.
Here is the economic punch line: The odd, but powerful, positive that I remember well about Greece was the many modest houses along the side of the rural roads made from cement blocks that had heavy duty rods or cables poking out of the top row of blocks on all four sides.
Another nearby building is still a wrangled mess, with structural steel rods jutting out of blackened stone.
Alex's curved spine meant that at the age of five he had metal rods inserted into his back.
Hydrogen is building up because, due to low levels of cooling water, fuel rods are partially exposed, causing them to overheat.
With a 15m-long bar and a luminous chandelier made up of 11, 000 glass rods, the sparkling interior echoes the view below.
The control rods caused each generation of fission to produce fewer neutrons and fewer fission reactions.
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The array itself is a steel hoop around 20 inches in diameter, the surface of its aperture teeming with rectangular rods.
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Modularity, potentially, can also reduce the possibility of runaway accidents because the fuel rods tend to be somewhat isolated from each other.
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