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Glossary entry

русский term or phrase:

топливная кассета

английский translation:

fuel assembly

Added to glossary by Leigh Mosley
Oct 11, 2017 23:44
6 yrs ago
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русский term

топливная кассета

русский => английский Техника Ядерные технологии / Ядерная физика
Помимо угрозы ядерной аварии, повреждения **топливных сборок** вело к значительным издержкам производства энергии, т. к. реакторы приходилось постоянно останавливать для замены испорченных **топливных кассет**.

Can a "топливная сборка" and a "топливная кассета" both mean "fuel assembly" in this sentence? Multitran also offers "fuel magazine" for "топливная кассета" but from what I can tell (https://www.google.tl/patents/US5319684) , a magazine is part of the assembly, so it can't be both at once.
Proposed translations (английский)
5 +3 fuel assembly
3 +1 fuel rod
4 fuel cassette (cassette-type fuel)

Proposed translations

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fuel assembly

"Fuel rod" is NOT the equivalent of "топливная кассета".
It is the assembly of rods, not the rod itself.
"Топливная кассета" is often used interchangeably with "топливная сборка". In the case of RBMK fuel, the full assembly consists of two sets of fuel rods, usually called 'fuel bundles'.
Never heard anyone use the term "fuel cassette".

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Note added at 1 day6 hrs (2017-10-13 05:54:42 GMT)
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Yes, that's how nuclear engineers around me have been using them for at least the past 20 years. "Кассета" may be outdated somewhat, but still heard.
Note from asker:
So you're saying that топливная кассета and топливная сборка are interchangeable terms?
Peer comment(s):

agree Vladyslav Golovaty : https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/fuel-assem...
2 час
agree Nik-On/Off
4 час
agree Vladimir Alekseev, MCIL
1 дн 7 час
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16 мин

fuel rod

Fuel rod
A long, slender, zirconium metal tube containing pellets of fissionable material, which provide fuel for nuclear reactors. Fuel rods are assembled into bundles called fuel assemblies, which are loaded individually into the reactor core.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/fuel-rod.h...

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Note added at 20 mins (2017-10-12 00:05:17 GMT)
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If more than one then fuel rod assemblies or bundles
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Nu...
PWR fuel assembly (also known as a fuel bundle) This fuel assembly is from a pressurized water reactor of the nuclear-powered passenger and cargo ship NS Savannah. Designed and built by the Babcock & Wilcox Company.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/CANDU_fu...
CANDU fuel bundles Two CANDU ("CANada Deuterium Uranium") fuel bundles, each about 50 cm long, 10 cm in diameter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel
Peer comment(s):

agree Jack Doughty
6 час
Thank you, Jack. Top o' the mornin' to ya.
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53 мин

fuel cassette (cassette-type fuel)

http://energetika.in.ua/ru/books/book-4/part-1/section-2/2-4...
"В технологический канал на специальной подвеске вводится тепловыделяющая топливная кассета (рис. 2.21), представляющая собой последовательное соединение двух тепловыделяющих сборок твэлов длиной 3,5 м каждая. Каждая тепловыделяющая сборка содержит 18 стержневых твэлов (рис. 2.22), которые дистанционируются и крепятся к центральной несущей трубе десятью стальными дистанционирующими решетками сотового типа."
https://books.google.ru/books?id=VfrEyypo-1oC&pg=PA78&dq=nuc... page 203 - cassette-type fuel, see also pages 74, 78 and 204
Example sentence:

The RITM 200 is a versatile reactor - that like some previous Russian naval reactors utilizes cassette-type fuel...

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