fuel assembly

collocation in English

meaningsoffuelandassembly

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fuel
noun
uk
/ˈfjuː.əl/us
/ˈfjuː.əl/
a substance that is used to provide heat or power, usually by ...
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assembly
noun
uk
/əˈsem.bli/us
/əˈsem.bli/
a group of people, especially one that meets regularly for a particular purpose, such as government, or, more generally, the process of coming together, or the state of ...
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(Definition offuelandassemblyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffuel assembly

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The 70 ftfuelassemblybecame stuck during on-load refuelling because there were distortions in the channel.
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Boiling water reactors may have dozens of neutron detectors, one perfuelassembly.
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Two masses of corium were found, one within thefuelassembly, one on the lower head of the reactor vessel.
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Reflectors send the neutrons back into thefuelassemblyto better utilize the fuel.
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In essence, the vendors make a model of thefuelassemblybut power it with resistive heaters.
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Thefuelassemblyis suspended in the fuel channel on a bracket, with a seal plug.
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Thefuelassemblywas 15 cm in diameter 14 cm tall and contained 55 fuel elements.
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The total mass of uranium in thefuelassemblyis 114.7kg lb.
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The total length of thefuelassemblyis 10.025m ftin, with 6.862m ftin of the active region.
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One of the disadvantages of a sealedfuelassemblyincludes buildup of fission products inside the fuel element.
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The pressure tube surrounding the fuel channel split because of overheating and bowing of the burningfuelassembly, and the carbon dioxide coolant leaked out of the reactor.
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When a nuclearfuelassemblyis prepared for onsite storage, it is dried and moved to a spent nuclear fuel shipping cask with scores of other assemblies.
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After 1986 absorbers were introduced in thefuelassembly, permanently assuring a negative void coefficient at the cost of higher enrichment requirements of the uranium fuel.
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If the fuel assemblies would fall, this could lead to re-criticality.
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The reactor was loaded with fuel assemblies containing about 80 tonnes of uranium oxide.
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The deliberate choice of a smaller fuel loading made the region near the center more active than it would have been with 59 fuel assemblies.
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Fuel is placed in the reactor in 312 fuel assemblies.
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The cost of the finished fuel assemblies are dominated by the processing costs, not the cost of the raw materials.
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Additionally, the building houses a gamma irradiation facility that uses spent fuel assemblies and is capable of accommodating high gamma dose experiments.
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