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

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 ...

Plant operator Southern Nuclear removed and inspected ... chromium coating added to the M5 Framatome zirconium alloy cladding, and chromia-enhanced fuel pellets were included in all fuel assembly rods ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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Performance and reliability of nuclear ... fuel (procurement, quality control, core design, and activities during NPP outages). To support effective fuel utilization, the IAEA gathers and analyses ...

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 ...

The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ... rod, grasped the debris sample at the bottom of the containment vessel on Oct. 30. TEPCO initially planned to start the fuel retrieval ...

A device to remove debris from a reactor at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear ... rod-like robot successfully clipped a piece of ...