Trouble at Temelin
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- Fueling up fast. Wesolowsky, Tony // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Sep/Oct2000, Vol. 56 Issue 5, p15
Highlights the fueling of nuclear reactors of the Temelin nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic. Reactions of environmentalists and other countries to the fueling; Statement from the European Union on the safety measures at Temelin; Basis of arguments against Temelin.
- Nuclear fuel management. Strauss, Sheldon D. // Power;Jul96, Vol. 140 Issue 7, p43
Discusses how to improve fuel cycle efficiency in nuclear power plants. Increase in the burnup of U-235 atoms in the fuel; Reduction of parasitic material; Improvements in fuel-rod designs; Outage-length impact. INSET: Utility credits partnering in outage success..
- New Documents. // Nuclear Plant Journal;Jan/Feb2002, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p17
Reports the changes of several documents of nuclear power plants. Announcement on the publication of a brochure on HydroDrills by Global Heat Exchanger Services; Compilation of country profiles on nuclear fuel cycle activities by The International Atomic Energy Agency; Lists of Web sites for...
- Lubmin fuel rods taken to Paks. // Modern Power Systems;Apr96, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p7
Reports on the shipment of three containers containing 235 new fuel elements from a closed nuclear power plant in Lubmin, Germany to a nuclear power plant in Paks, Hungary.
- UK government authorises BNFL MOX fuel plant. // Modern Power Systems;Oct2001, Vol. 21 Issue 10, p9
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- Thorp go-ahead. // New Scientist;3/12/94, Vol. 141 Issue 1916, p11
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- Thermionic fast spectrum reactor�converter on the basis of multi-cell TFE. Ponomarev-Stepnoi, N. N.; Kompaniets, G. V.; Poliakov, D. N.; Stepennov, B. S.; Andreev, P. V.; Zhabotinsky, E. E.; Nikolaev, Yu. V.; Lapochkin, N. V. // AIP Conference Proceedings;2001, Vol. 552 Issue 1, p1131
Today Russian experts have technological experience in development of in-core thermionic converters for reactors of space nuclear power plants. Such a converter contains nuclear fuel inside and really represents a fuel element of a reactor. Two types of reactors can be considered on the basis of...
- Early closure for nuclear vanguard. // Utility Week;6/28/2002, Vol. 17 Issue 25, p3
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- Bubbler Basin and Steam-Distribution Corridor of the Chernobyl NPP Block 4: New Data. Pazukhin, E. M.; Borovoi, A. A.; Klyuchnikov, A. A.; Krasnov, V. A.; Lagunenk, A. S.; Gavrilov, S. L. // Radiochemistry;Mar/Apr2003, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p201
Information on the lava-like fuel-containing materials (LFCMs) accumulated in the bubbler basin and steam-distribution corridor of the Chernobyl NPP Block 4 is critically summarized and verified. The amount of the fuel in these rooms is estimated, and the verified results of ?-spectrometric,...
