Electricite de France SA is increasing the iron content of cladding for nuclear fuel rods to address a long-standing issue with corrosion, as a French newspaper reported that a reactor in China is ...
In the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was initially driven into shutdown by the magnitude 9.0 quake; its emergency generators then ...
A large variety of spent fuels from research reactors around the world are currently stored underwater in basins. Most of this fuel is clad in aluminium based alloys that are susceptible to corrosion ...
Nuclear fuel rods can melt, in the worst case into a glowing, radioactive blob in the bottom of the reactor vessel. The Pros and Cons of Zirconium Cladding Conventional fuel—enriched uranium oxide ...
Improving the reliability of nuclear fuel is grounded in a strong nuclear safety culture. The cladding is the primary barrier for fission products, and preserving the integrity of this barrier ...
Corrosion of fuel rod cladding and primary circuit component materials has for many years remained a serious concern for water cooled nuclear power reactors, especially those operated at high burnup ...
In another significant boost to commercial deployment of accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) at existing nuclear reactors, the first 18-month fuel cycle test of Framatome’s GAIA Enhanced Accident Tolerant ...
Nuclear fuel reprocessing has been carried out at Sellafield in the UK since the 1950s and, over that period, has presented engineers with a wide variety of challenging materials problems. The process ...
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced it has completed preliminary development of four individual performance models in support of its SiGA silicon carbide composite nuclear fuel ...
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