Sentences with phrase «nuclear fuel pellets»

Response: SMR - 160 uses commonly available nuclear fuel pellets in zircaloy tubes (fuel rods) manufactured by many qualified suppliers around the world.

His discoveries of isotopic heterogeneity at the nanoscale during that exercise gave rise to his interest in developing new forensic tools for nuclear fuel pellets using NanoSIMS.

While the material used for testing was aluminum, the team plans to run similar tests with zirconium, a metal widely used for high - temperature reactor applications such as the cladding of nuclear fuel pellets.

According to David Bradish, a data analyst at the Nuclear Energy Institute, a nuclear fuel pellet measures 0.07 cubic inch (about the size of your fingertip) and contains the energy equivalent of 1,780 pounds of coal.

Not exact matches

PANCAKES have been getting in the way of nuclear fusion: the process comes unstuck when fuel pellets end up spread out flat.

The 3.7 - meter - long nuclear fuel used at Fukushima is composed of uranium oxide pellets encased in a zirconium cladding.

Nuclear fuel rods are made of hundreds of small pellets of enriched uranium placed end - to - end inside hollow tubes of zircaloy that are about a half - inch across.

These pellets are loaded into metal tubes that are bundled in fuel assemblies (12 to 17 feet tall) and shipped to nuclear power plants.

The nuclear fuel for a reactor is designed with a specific pellet diameter and cladding.