In a nuclear power plant, you have a big pot of water that's under high pressure, and you have some fuel rods, and these fuel rods are encased in zirconium, and they're little pellets of uranium dioxide fuel, and a fission reaction is controlled and maintained at a proper level, and that reaction heats up water, the water turns to steam, steam turns the turbine, and you produce electricity from it.

It is probably plants, except that these have been burned and crushed under pressure.

Let me talk about today's nuclear fuel, because that is common to both boiling water reactors, pressurized water reactors and CANDUs.

looking back at Three Mile Island, we didn't really see this for a while but these zirconium claddings on these fuel rods, what happens is, when they see high pressure water, steam, in an oxidizing environment, they'll actually produce hydrogen, and that hydrogen has this explosive capability to release fission products.

In this kind of reactor, you can't do that.

So what happens?

I need fuel.

Primary fuel?

Fuel supply?

Our fuel.

Oh, no! I think we're out of gas.

This is basically why we would bother to do it.

We have a fuel leak!

Mr. President, you often say there are no silver bullets to our energy problems.

Mine fuel

Primary fuel 2893 KRG.

What is he saying about the fuel?

Fuel cells.

Gas up the chopper,frank.

The source of fuel crude oil.

Jet fuel.

I made a promise that the next time I would fly around the world, it would be with no fuel, independent from fossil energies, in order to be safe, not to be threatened by the fuel gauge.

A big pressurized water reactor vessel.

Here!

Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?

You tracked the crew. The food, the fuel!

That's it, people!

Once the cereal has ripened, it needs to be harvested.

Rp7 rocket fuel burns at 5.000 degrees.

The red line is what is done in most nuclear reactors.

Fuel, Skripach, fuel...

It's chemically fueled.

Fuelinjected.

Air lock pressurization complete.

Col. Tigh, how much aviation fuel has been expended in this operation?

There was a shortage of fuel.

Ran out of juice.

But I'm not really concerned about the fuel.

We've talked about the soil erosion.

I can't give you a fuel injection.

Drop the fuel tanks and pull up!

Fill her up.

Like those cars that run on corn.

We're losing fuel.

It's like Michigan... hardcore propellant.