irradiated fuel

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• Spent fuel —   Irradiated fuel that is permanently discharged from a reactor. Except for possible reprocessing, this fuel must eventually be removed from its temporary storage location at thereactor site and placed in a permanent repository. Spent fuel is… …   Energy terms

• Reinserted fuel —   Irradiated fuel that is discharged in one cycle and inserted in the same reactor during a subsequent refueling. In a few cases, fuel discharged from one reactor has been used to fuel a different reactor.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy… …   Energy terms

• Discharged fuel —   Irradiated fuel removed from a nuclear reactor during refueling. Also see Spent Fuel.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …   Energy terms

• Irradiated nuclear fuel —   Nuclear fuel that has been exposed to radiation in the reactor core at any power level.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …   Energy terms

• Behavior of nuclear fuel during a reactor accident — This page is devoted to a discussion of how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions such as overheating. Work in this area is often very expensive to conduct, and so… …   Wikipedia

• Thorium fuel cycle — The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclear fuel cycle that uses thorium 232 as fertile material and uranium 233 as fissile fuel. A major advantage of the thorium fuel cycle is that production of plutonium and other long lived actinides as radioactive… …   Wikipedia

• Temporarily discharged fuel —   Fuel that was irradiated in the previous fuel cycle (cycle N) and not in the following fuel cycle (cycle N+1) and that will be irradiated in a subsequent fuel cycle.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …   Energy terms

• Spent nuclear fuel — Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant) to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction. Nuclear… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear fuel cycle — The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the front end, which are the preparation of the fuel, steps in the service period in which… …   Wikipedia

• spent fuel — /spɛnt ˈfjuəl/ (say spent fyoohuhl) noun nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction …  

• Chapelcross nuclear power station — Chapelcross nuclear power station, prior to demolition of the cooling towers Country Scotland Coordinates …   Wikipedia