The ceramic casing is stronger and more resilient than the typical zirconium alloy ... and safer than any previous reactor ...
Zirconium metal had some hidden assets which suddenly brought it to prominence in the late 1940s; it was found to be the ideal metal for inside nuclear reactors and nuclear submarines. It does not ...
Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium alloy (zircalloy) tubes are filled with ceramic fuel pellets, which get assembled into fuel assemblies for loading into the reactor.
The lead fuel rods used in the Gösgen reactor consist of Framatome’s advanced chromium coating added to the state-of-the-art M5Framatome zirconium alloy cladding, with UO2 fuel pellets for some ...
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency on Dec. 26 released images of nuclear fuel debris retrieved from the No. 2 reactor at the ...
Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium alloy (zircalloy) tubes are filled with ceramic fuel pellets, which get assembled into fuel assemblies for loading into the reactor.
Sources say uranium has been found in a sample of fuel debris retrieved from the No.2 reactor at the troubled Fukushima ...
The debris was extracted from the Fukushima Prefecture plant's No. 2 reactor under the power company's first trial removal ...
In addition to uranium, iron and zirconium, used in a pipe covering ... toward full-fledged efforts to remove debris from the nuclear reactors.