fuel rod
nuclear fuel contained in a long thin-walled tube, an array of such tubes forming the core of a nuclear reactor.
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Uranium is then shipped by truck or train to SONGS in little inch-long pellets which are then put into huge, metal fuel rods suspended in water.
Environment Report: Why San Diego Can’t Recycle Its Nuclear Waste | MacKenzie Elmer | December 7, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThat uranium fuel is used for three to five years, then removed from the reactor and stored in water for another five years so the fuel rods can be cooled down.
Environment Report: Why San Diego Can’t Recycle Its Nuclear Waste | MacKenzie Elmer | December 7, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoWhen they get to around 570 °F, the fuel rods are packed into steel canisters and brought to the Orano plant in the northwesternmost point in France, in the town of La Hague.
Finding homes for the waste that will (probably) outlive humanity | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewSpent fuel rods are taken from nuclear reactors and placed in a storage pool to cool for two years.
Finding homes for the waste that will (probably) outlive humanity | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
British Dictionary definitions for fuel rod
a long tube, often made of a zirconium alloy and containing uranium-oxide pellets, that is stacked in bundles of about 200 to provide the fuel in certain types of nuclear reactor
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