Sentence examples for fuel melt from inspiring English sources

As Mr Burnie points out, Tepco also admitted massive fuel melt 16 hours after loss of coolant, andseven or eight hours before the explosion in Unit One.

Following the SBO, the reactor water level gradually dropped due to the increase in steam discharge from safety relief valves and eventually led to nuclear fuel melt down.

At the burn out point the clad surface heat flux exceeds its design critical value which results in partial fuel melt.

Fuel melt or damage to fuel resulting in more than 0.1 percent release of core inventory; release of significant quantities of radioactive material within an installation, with a high probability of significant public exposure and at least one death from radiation.

(At Three Mile Island, fuel melted down but didn't escape the reactor).

The lofting of the latter particles in large quantities points to "substantial fuel melting," Dr. Henry said.

The fire left about 10 tons of radioactive fuel melted in the reactor core.

"At TMI, in just two hours, 50percentt of the fuel melted.

No sign of fuel melting was found in any of the specimens.

In the sensitivity analysis of 1000 MWe core, initiation of voiding and fuel melting occurs.

The task is a race against time, because as the fuel melts it forms a blob that becomes increasingly difficult to cool.