Sentence examples for depleted fuel from inspiring English sources
Previously, the spent fuel pools of Laguna Verde Nuclear Power plant were redesigned to host the total operating life depleted fuel under its original nominal power condition, however the plant has been up-rated to 120% of its original nominal power increasing the number of depleted fuel forecasted.
This study analyzes the potential to burn actinide from depleted fuel in a thermal reactor without reducing the nominal electricity generation of the reactor and meeting all the safety constraints.
The early fasting stage is categorically centered on glycogenolysis, and after glycogen stores in the liver are depleted, fuel sources are produced by gluconeogenesis and by lipolysis of white adipose tissue [31].
Final disposition of spent nuclear fuel in a permanent repository is still on debate; meanwhile the stockpile of depleted fuel is increasing.
Although MOX fuel coming from reprocessed depleted uranium fuels has been used as a recycling strategy by countries like France and Japan it is not a common policy in the 30 countries that uses nuclear power, nowadays it seems to be a more direct alternative to reduce the depleted fuel interim storage.
Such maneuvers shorten mission life by depleting fuel reserves.
This presents challenges, such as depleting fuel reserves, fluctuating fuel prices, and the increasing emissions of carbon dioxide that is impacting the environment.
Supercritical-pressure light water cooled fast reactor adopts the blanket fuel assemblies with depleted uranium fuel and zirconium hydride layer in the core for negative coolant void reactivity.
Compact lattice of MOX fuel pins are arranged in hexagonal seed assembly while blanket assembly comprised of depleted UO2 fuel pins wrapped with solid moderator ZrH layer for negative void reactivity.
NASA had first considered leaving Galileo in orbit after it depleted its fuel.
Thereafter "Yeltsin looked more and more like a black hole: a giant star exerting enormous gravitational pull on everything around it, but coming to the end of its life, depleted of fuel and incapable of projecting light".
