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fuel rod n (Engineering / General Engineering) 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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Should these fuel rods somehow become ignited, the resulting fire would spew radioactivity into the environment equaling three or four times that from the Chernobyl incident. On July 26, they shut it down and discovered that 13 of its 43 fuel rods had partially melted, releasing unknown levels of radiation into the reactor and the building that housed it. Moreover, the plant must be completely shut down in order for the fuel rods to be extracted--making the process immediately open to inspection and detection. |
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