Selection of an appropriate spent fuel element can provide essentially any required dose rate.
The station's 240 remaining staff saw off the last of the nuclear fuel elements.
Each channel held up to 4 fuel elements and extended completely through to the inside of the cylinder.
These concentrated fuels were then reformed, on site, into new fuel elements.
The fuel elements were washed in the wash cell, and returned to the reactor.
But then we've got another set of fuel elements, over in Number Two.
As a result, some of the fuel elements melted or deformed inside the reactor.
At this rate, 16 new fuel elements were required each year.
There are four circuits and 1,832 fuel elements in the reactor core.
Experiments were held with different fuel elements and matrix materials.