Gilinsky wrote in a recent article that it took five weeks to learn that "the reactor operators had measured fuel temperatures near the melting point."

These neutrons will be less energetic, with an energy comparable to the fuel temperature.

Conventional reactors have stricter limitations because the core would melt if the fuel temperature were to rise too high.

In the event, this did not prove necessary, as the fuel temperature never dropped below -34 C, still well above its freezing point.

Modern long-distance airliners are equipped to alert flight crew when fuel temperatures reach these levels.

I'm looking at the fuel temperature.

On July 23, it was decided to shut the reactor down because of high fuel temperature and an unacceptable top-bottom reactor temperature differential.

Operates at a lower nuclear fuel temperature.

As fuel temperature went up, zirconium alloy cladding reacted with the hot steam.