irradiated fuel

The plant will initially reprocess irradiated fuels from the country's five existing nuclear power plants.

It was an honour for me to be here today to share with you the Commission's position on the contamination of the irradiated fuel casks.

It all boils down to "mining" weapons-usable nuclear materials from irradiated fuel.

At these stations, scientists and technicians can better determine the performance of irradiated fuels and materials.

In these the reactor must be shut down and the pressure vessel disassembled to gain access to the irradiated fuel.

What is needed is a secure temporary storage solution for irradiated fuel elements, which will be covered by the current financial support.

Exposure of worker to an irradiated fuel element (First Quarter 2001)

If the exposed irradiated fuel had caught fire it would have resulted in an airborne off-site release of radiation.

Dropped basket of irradiated fuel elements (July 2001)

The first irradiated fuel was discharged.

I would now like to look at the subject of support for the development of a geological final disposal solution for irradiated fuel elements.

The Commission supports the rapporteur's view with regard to the need to develop a solution for the secure final disposal of irradiated fuel elements.

And the possibility of irradiated fuel in the hands of a terrorist or rogue government has become increasingly worrisome in recent years.

Irradiated fuel accumulates at reactors with no rational storage solution, increasing the potential for theft by those seeking to produce nuclear weapons.

A two-year decommissioning project that the authority completed in October 1994 partly dismantled the interior and removed 560 irradiated fuel assemblies.

Recently attention has turned to possible terrorist attacks on the Indian Point spent-fuel pools, where old irradiated fuel is stored awaiting eventual shipment off site.

The irradiated fuel slugs were transported by rail to three huge remotely operated chemical separation plants called "canyons" that were located about away.

The N Reactor has been closed since late 1986, but Purex continued to operate until last December to reduce a large stockpile of irradiated fuel.

He feared that the plutonium reclaimed at the plant from irradiated fuels could fall into the hands of terrorists and be used to make crude atom bombs.

The information is clear, the destructive capability within the two operating plants and the three spent irradiated fuel pools just does not allow us to make the decision to continue.

Plutonium for the fuel is extracted from irradiated fuel in the Madras power reactors and reprocessed in Tarapur.

Liquid waste arises when factories take highly irradiated fuel rods and mine them for such valuables as plutonium, which can fuel nuclear bombs and reactors.

The secondary containment includes the top floor with water-filled pools for storing fresh or irradiated fuel and for storage of irradiated tools and structures.

In order to implement burnup credit, fuel is modeled as irradiated using pessimistic conditions which produce an isotopic composition representative of all irradiated fuel.

Risks of transporting of irradiated fuel and nuclear materials in the UK, Large & Associates, for Greenpeace (2007)