"sodium" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This started up in 1985, but two years later suffered a serious accident when some of the liquid sodium coolant leaked out.
- All large-scale fast reactors have used molten sodium coolant.
- There are no rapid violent reactions with water and air that sodium coolant has.
- The high volume of liquid sodium primary coolant in the pool configuration is designed to absorb decay heat without reaching fuel melting temperature.
- Metal sodium (Na) coolant in many ways has the most attractive combination of properties for this purpose.
- Secondly, safety issues are cited as a concern with fast reactors that use a sodium coolant - a leak could lead to a sodium fire.
- In May 2005 the core support basket was drilled to drain the remaining sodium coolant, which effectively made the reactor unusable.
- The sodium coolant is already running through the coolant loop and has to be kept hot using electric heating elements so it does not solidify.
- Thousands of pounds of sodium coolant from the time of the meltdown are not yet accounted for.
- The $6 billion reactor has been shut since a huge leak of sodium coolant in December 1995, but the government has intended to resume operations.
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