Sentence examples for keep spent from inspiring English sources

The pools, which sit atop the reactor buildings and are meant to keep spent fuel submerged in water, have lost their cooling systems.

The pools, which sit on the top level of the reactor buildings and keep spent fuel submerged in water, have lost their cooling systems and the Japanese have been unable to take emergency steps because of the multiplying crises.

The agreement, for example, allowed North Korea to keep spent fuel rods from the Yongbyon reactor for an unspecified number of years, meaning that it could break its agreements and quickly produce nuclear weapons.

According to Japanese officials, the United States government shared the data with Japan's Foreign Ministry through its embassy in Tokyo on March 18, a day after helicopters frantically dropped water on a blown-out reactor building to keep spent fuel rods there from overheating.

Even when in shutdown nuclear plants need cooling systems operating to keep spent fuel cool.

With the proposed depository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada scrapped, many nuclear facilities have had to keep spent fuel at their respective sites.

It also needs consumers to keep spending.

Bigger paychecks helped to keep spending strong.

"We cannot keep spending money we don't have".

And those companies expect consumers to keep spending.

We can't keep spending money we don't have".