Sentence examples for rod assembly from inspiring English sources

A typical fuel rod assembly has roughly 380 pounds of uranium.

Therefore, the drop performance of the control rod assembly is important for the safety of a nuclear reactor.

The control rod assembly controls reactor power by adjusting its position during normal operation and shuts down chain reactions by its free drop under scram conditions.

Based on absorbent material amount and shim rod assembly dimension limits, the optimal number and arrangement of absorbent rods have been determined.

The loads and boundary conditions obtained from the experiments were used in the finite element model of the connecting rod assembly.

Numerous fretting damages exist at various parts of nuclear power systems [7], such as reactor fuel assembly, control rod assembly [8], reactor component, steam generator, pressure vessel [9], main pump, and coolant pump.

Though delicate and painstaking, retrieving the fuel rod assemblies from the pools is not the toughest job the workers face.

The electric utility said that a total of 11,125 spent fuel rod assemblies were stored at the site.

The removal of nuclear fuel rod assemblies from a badly damaged building at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant is finally under way.

According to Tokyo Electric, 32 of the 514 fuel rod assemblies in the storage pond at Reactor No. 3 contain mox.

Once the fuel is removed to a safer place, workers will turn their attention to a further 1,573 fuel rod assemblies held in similar pools in the buildings for reactors one, two and three.