In order to store fuel in the irradiated fuel store it must satisfy a loading curve which is dependent on initial enrichment and irradiation.
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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.
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A large cylindrical basket holding the irradiated fuel elements appeared to come loose as it was being lowered to a cooling pond, he said.
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Drey's solution to the nuclear waste issue is to not ship the irradiated fuel rods from more than 100 nuclear reactors by highway and rail.
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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.
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The IAEA, which has been monitoring the facilities, said Pyongyang this weekend unsealed a spent fuel storage chamber that holds 8, 000 irradiated fuel rods.
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The Hydrometallurgy Pilot Plant designed for conducting bench scale radiochemistry experiments involving the separation of plutonium and uranium from irradiated fuel elements of the ETRR-1 research reactor.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring the facilities, said Pyongyang this weekend unsealed a spent fuel storage chamber that holds 8, 000 irradiated fuel rods.
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The newspaper described a series of accidents at three plants in Siberia that mined irradiated fuel rods from nuclear reactors for the plutonium used to make nuclear weapons.
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The U . N . nuclear watchdog, which has been monitoring the facilities, said Pyongyang had unsealed a spent fuel storage chamber that holds 8, 000 irradiated fuel rods.
