Today, nuclear fission is largely produced with fuel rods, which are skinny zirconium tubes packed with uranium pellets. The fission rate is kept in check with control rods, which are made of ...

Zirconium alloys are used in the nuclear industry as fuel rod cladding due to zirconium's high strength and low neutron ...

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which are inserted into hollow zirconium metal fuel rods. Bundles of fuel rods are grouped together to form a single uranium fuel rod assembly which is then inserted into the nuclear reactor core to ...

Performance and reliability of nuclear fuel are important ... part of the life-cycle of fuel (procurement, quality control, core design, and activities during NPP outages). To support effective fuel ...

Their tiny nuclear fuel pellets called triso fuel are said to be the size of poppy seeds and are meant to power a reactor by Rolls Royce the size of a “small car.” We aren’t sure if that’s ...

GLEEP the first nuclear reactor in Western Europe was built at Harwell in 1946.In 1946, because of its proximity to Oxford, an RAF airfield at Harwell was chosen as the site for research and ...

China's government denied there had been a radioactive leak at the facility in Guangdong province The Chinese government has acknowledged damage to fuel rods at a nuclear power plant in the south ...

One critical aspect is the effect on Japan's nuclear industry ... core "uncovery", which is defined as the point when the fuel rods are no longer covered by coolant and can begin to heat up.

Aremco offers a broad range of machinable and fully-dense ceramic materials for applications in which high temperature insulation, thermal shock resistance and high ...

BEIJING--A Chinese nuclear power plant near Hong Kong had five broken fuel rods in a reactor but no radioactivity leaked, the government said Wednesday in its first confirmation of the incident ...

TOKYO -- A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel on Thursday, in what plant ...