Sentence examples for contain spent from inspiring English sources

This cask comprises a main body made of carbon steel and a stainless steel Dry Shielded Canister (DSC), with stainless steel baskets inside to contain spent fuel assemblies.

Still, the situation could be dire if the storage pools that contain spent fuel rods run dry, which may have happened yesterday and could presumably occur if the plant was abandoned.

Two years ago, the Russian government provided a tally: two submarines, 14 reactors — five of which contain spent nuclear fuel — 19 other vessels sunk with radioactive waste on board, and about 17,000 containers holding radioactive waste.

But the plant contains spent fuel rods that were removed from the reactor, and experts guessed that the pool containing those rods had run dry, allowing the rods to overheat and catch fire.

Those reactors were not in use when the disaster occurred, but they contained spent fuel rods, and engineers were concerned this week when temperatures in the reactors began to rise.

Tepco said that neither shutdown created any danger, because the systems were cooling pools containing spent fuel, which give off relatively low levels of heat and would remain safe even if left uncooled for a week.

When Mr. Brodsky suggested that airliners crashing into a part of the plant containing spent nuclear fuel might produce a catastrophic release of radiation, Mr. Slobodien disagreed, saying the plant had bolstered security after Sept. 11 and he had not seen scientific data backing up that scenario.

Malcolm Morley's "Last Painting of Vincent van Gogh" (1972) is an installation consisting of an almost exact copy of "Cornfield With Rooks" (1890) on an easel and a floor-bound artist's supply box containing spent, lead-paint tubes, a messy palette, two paint-covered rags and a loaded gun.

The power company also said that on Sunday workers injected 40 tons of water into the storage pool containing spent fuel rods at Unit No. 2, and that firefighters began spraying water into the pool at Unit No. 4. On Saturday, firefighters sprayed water at the storage pool of Unit No. 3 for more than 13 hours.

He tried to flee but was captured along with a backpack that officials said contained spent 9-millimeter shell casings, four bags of ammonium nitrate — an ingredient used in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City — and a notebook with entries referring to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

The mix design work done on asphalt mixtures containing spent catalyst from both source shows that there is a good potential for using spent catalyst in road applications.