41. The fuel elements were situated within six open-topped aluminium tanks containing water that were separated and surrounded by graphite. 42. The fuel elements were hollow hexagonal tubes about long with distance between the outer parallel planes, with inside diameter of. 43. In spacecraft propulsion, the performance of nuclear engines can be improved by raising the operating temperature of the fuel elements . 44. The decomposed tetralin clogged several narrow cooling channels used by the sodium to remove heat from the reactor fuel elements . 45. Fuel element corrosion tests were first conducted at Cheswick, and later at the Westinghouse Waltz Mill facility in Westmoreland County.46. Meanwhile, some fuel elements melted and the calandria was pierced at several places; helium leaked and air was aspired inside. 47. The Energy Department responded by identifying 415 fuel elements to be returned here for storage over the next two years. 48. Chemical engineers hoped to design liquid-fuel reactors that would dispense with the costly destruction and processing of solid fuel elements . 49. Westinghouse metallurgists found no damage to the fuel elements , including the metal containers and zirconium rods holding the fresh fuel. 50. An additional 130 fuel elements were barred from there by a federal court order after South Carolina officials filed a lawsuit.
