defueling

In the past, defueling was a potentially hazardous and time consuming operation.

Defueling her eight nuclear reactors - a pair per prop shaft - will begin there.

Defueling the TMI-2 reactor vessel was the heart of the cleanup.

In addition to this Victor, five other submarines have damaged cores preventing their defueling by normal methods.

Initially, efforts focused on the cleanup and decontamination of the site, especially the defueling of the damaged reactor.

Spelker oversaw the defueling of the ship's nuclear reactor, inactivation, and decommissioning.

Defueling usually coincides with decommissioning.

Defueling efforts began the first week of February, with the first phase completed on February 20, the day the search for victims resumed.

Following defueling, LPCI can be shut down.

Delaying the salvage operations and defueling would only cause more controversy, and Gabrielli is determined to get this job done as quickly as possible.

In addition, the McGregor facility is used for post-flight disassembly and defueling of the Dragon spacecraft.

The contract for defueling Enterprise was eventually awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries in June 2013.

These skills range from detailed knowledge for preparing the submarines’s transportation through highly specialised nuclear engineering skills for defueling the submarine’s twin nuclear reactors.

Divers from the Dutch Salvage company Smit positioned defueling equipment along the capsized vessel to pump out some 2,300 tons of diesel fuel.

Defueling of submarines is carried out at five ship repair facilities on the West Coast, and the hulks are then towed to PSNS.

Gordon Tomb, a GPU spokesman, said the revised schedule "reflects the difficulties we've had in defueling the first two-thirds of the debris" from the damaged reactor.

Today, the water of Pearl Harbor has been highly contaminated by nuclear defueling and other toxic influences, and has thereby been designated as a Superfund site.

With funding from the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the defueling of her reactors started in June 2002 at the Zvezdochka shipyard.

As Soviet Navy (and now Russian Navy) nuclear vessels are decommissioned, they are laid up at Polyarny awaiting defueling and disposal.

Unit 2 continues to be licensed and regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a condition known as Post Defueling Monitored Storage (PDMS).

After a few days of LPCI, decay heat will have sufficiently abated to the point that defueling of the reactor is able to commence with a degree of caution.

The Class III Petroleum, Oils and Lubricant Refueling and Defueling Services award has a one-year base performance period and four one-year options.

The team of experts, headed by Franco Gabrielli of the Italian civil-protection agency, has given the green light for the Dutch salvage company SMIT to begin defueling the ship’s 17 tanks.

Families of some of the missing are now wondering if the suspension of the search for survivors was not due to weather alone, but also to allow the salvage crews to begin the delicate process of defueling the ship.

On 10 August 1985, control rods were incorrectly removed from a Victor class submarine during defueling at Chazma Bay naval yard outside Vladivostok, resulting in an explosion, the "release of large amounts of radioactivity", and ten deaths.