File:Nuclear fuel pellets.jpeg

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Upload date 2005-06-27T09:41:13Z
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Description
English: Nuclear fuel pellets and a fuel rod
Deutsch: Brennelement und radioaktive Brenstoffpelets
Date 27 June 2005
Source This picture is from the Yucca Mountain Project website of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.
Original caption:
These pellets of enriched uranium will be sealed inside metal fuel rods to generate electricity in a nuclear reactor. After three or four years in a reactor, the pellets will become inefficient for producing electricity and the fuel rods will be removed from the reactor. After removal, the fuel rods (now called spent nuclear fuel) will be highly radioactive, requiring safe long-term disposal.
Author
Public domain This image is a work of a United States Department of Energy (or predecessor organization) employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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Captions

Nuclear fuel pellets and a fuel rod

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

fuel assembly

pelletizing

human hand

inception

27 June 2005

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Category:Human hands holding objects Category:Objects with black background Category:PD US DOE Category:Uranium pellets Category:Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository