According to a NRC memo from Thursday that was released Monday, Palo Verde officials realized March 24 that there was damage to the A07 fuel bundle.
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Each HSM a thick, reinforced, pre-cast concrete structure about the size of a single car garage has the capacity to hold 61 fuel bundles.
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Specifically, MFLCPR represents how close the leading fuel bundle is to " dry-out " ( or " departure from nucleate boiling " for a PWR ).
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"' PWR fuel assembly "'( also known as a fuel bundle ) This fuel assembly is from a pressurized water reactor of the nuclear-powered passenger and cargo ship.
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Plutonium is a different element, and thus is fairly easy to chemically separate from the rest of the fuel when the fuel bundle is removed from the reactor.
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The fuel bundle problem was largely ( but not completely ) solved by the end of the program, and related materials work at Argonne National Laboratory looked promising.
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Twenty-four of these fuel bundles have been tested in the Point Lepreau CANDU 6 reactor in New Brunswick, Canada, and results indicate CANFLEX meets all expectations and regulatory requirements.
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The Canadian proposal has generated little controversy in the United States, even though the plutonium fuel bundle shipments would have to be trucked through a number of American states.
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If this process further weakens the fuel bundles, they will eventually bend far enough to touch the calandria tube, allowing heat to be efficiently transferred into the moderator tank.
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As part of the overall opening up of the energy market in Ireland as a whole Bord G�is Energy entered the deregulated electricity market offering dual fuel bundles to consumers.
