unfueled in a sentence
Examples
- The baseline NERVA designs were about 15, 000 lb, or 6, 800 kg, making the total unfueled mass ( { m _ 1 } ) of a " drop-in " S-IVB replacement around 17, 300 kg.
- _On June 7, 1981, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered Israel's air force to bomb a new and yet-unfueled nuclear power plant in Iraq because of intelligence reports that President Saddam Hussein planned to use plutonium from the plant's reactors in nuclear warheads.
- The preliminary conceptual design of the reactor was based on the " flux trap " principle, in which the reactor core consists of an annular region of fuel surrounding an unfueled moderating region or " island . " Such a configuration permits fast neutrons leaking from the fuel to be moderated in the island and thus produces a region of very high thermal-neutron flux at the center of the island.