Sentence examples for holding spent from inspiring English sources

At the bottom of the pool, metal racks holding spent fuel rods were just barely visible.

Emergency crews in Japan this week were still dumping tons of seawater into a boiling storage pool holding spent nuclear fuel at one of the units there.

He also said the agency lacked data about the temperatures of the pools holding spent fuel rods at the Nos. 1, 3 and 4 reactors.

No 4: Under maintenance when quake struck, fire caused possibly by hydrogen explosion at pool holding spent fuel rods, pool water level feared receding.

Even as workers race to prevent the radioactive cores of the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan from melting down, concerns are growing that nearby pools holding spent fuel rods could pose an even greater danger.

"So we are concerned that we do not know its exact status". He also said the agency lacked data about the temperatures of the pools holding spent fuel rods at the Nos. 1, 3 and 4 reactors.

A storage facility built with international financial support will hold spent fuel collected from the reactor site.

Its site is now proposed for a "dry cask" waste storage system that would hold spent nuclear fuel.

The storage pool at Fukushima Daiichi Power Station's No. 2 Reactor, which holds spent nuclear fuel rods, was spewing steam late Tuesday, forcing workers to divert their attention to dousing the reactor building with water.

On the flip side, after decades of service, adjacent facilities — some underground — hold spent fuel, plutonium and atomic waste that could add significantly to the consequences of an accurate ballistic missile strike from Iran.

Nuclear engineers have warned in recent days that the pools outside the containment buildings that hold spent fuel rods could pose an even greater danger than the melted reactor cores.