Sentence examples for used fuel from inspiring English sources

In some cases, the used fuel is kept in pools.

In this country, the used fuel rods are left in their original form, awaiting burial.

These reactors store their used fuel rods in what are known as spent fuel pools.

One worry is the way the bomb-usable material would be extracted from the used fuel.

Late Tuesday, Tokyo Electric said water levels were "low" in unit 4's used fuel pool.

That could stop the cooling process of the used fuel, Mr. Berg explained, and in turn shut down the plant.

But what if they used fuel cells for propulsion, hydrogen for fuel, and electronics and software for control?

Fukushima had a lot of used fuel in spent-fuel ponds, which keep it cool and absorb its radiation.

Military wastes and used fuel rods from nuclear power plants have been piling up ever since the dawn of the nuclear age half a century ago.

Plutonium is created when uranium is used in reactors, and when it is separated from used fuel it can be reused either for reactors or for making bombs.

Pyroprocessing was tested at the Argonne National Laboratory's Idaho test station, where researchers chopped up used fuel and ran electric currents through the mixture.