However, the irradiated fuel element snagged during the operation and was lifted out of its shielding resulting in the operators on the pile cap being exposed to the intense radiation being emitted from the irradiated fuel element.
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"If industry-supported legislation becomes law, irradiated fuel will begin moving on highways and railroads across the country on an unprecedented scale, " said Anna Aurilio, a scientist at the U . S . Public Interest Research Group.
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This is a false colour tomography picture of a bundle ( FPT1 ) of 18 irradiated fuel rods ( 23 GWd / tU mean burn-up ) degraded under steam as part of the PHEBUS set of experiments.
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The Vienna-based U . N . International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring the North Korean facilities, said that Pyongyang had unsealed a 5-megawatt reactor and a spent fuel storage chamber that holds 8, 000 irradiated fuel rods.
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A complicated process spelled out in a law passed 15 years ago gave President Bush authority to designate Yucca as a national storage site for irradiated fuel rods from nuclear power plants, and he did that on Feb . 15.
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Also shown were fully computerized irradiated fuel monitors, which measure the amount of radioactive fuel produced by a reactor to ensure none of it is diverted for nuclear use, and other devices to register the amount of power used in reactors.
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The Vienna-based IAEA, which has been monitoring the facilities, said earlier Pyongyang this weekend unsealed a spent fuel storage chamber that holds 8, 000 irradiated fuel rods at the 5-megawatt, Soviet-designed reactor in Yongbyon, 80 kilometers ( 50 miles ) north of Pyongyang.
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Originally a hot cell facility at the Arak site was planned, described as capable of handling irradiated fuel and targets ( such as targets for production of medical radioisotopes ) from the IR-40, but in 2004 plans for hot cells at Arak were removed.
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The authority also shipped 560 irradiated fuel assemblies by barge from the plant, which is on Long Island Sound about 60 miles east of Manhattan, to the Philadelphia Electric Company's power plant in Limerick, Pa . The last of 33 barge shipments was made in June.
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As others point out, irradiated fuel rods are dangerous to directly observe ( through air-water of sufficient depth is a good shield ) due to radiation created by decay products, not because of inherent danger posed by uranium or plutonium, which can be handled with due precaution.
