The question that should be asked is why zirconium is still used in cladding for
nuclear fuel rods after being implicated in the Three Mile Island disaster.
Not exact matches
Some 16 months
after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant, operations to remove the
nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun
Five years
after the Fukushima
nuclear meltdown, the site still teems with 7,000 workers attempting to contain its radioactive water and debris, while radiation remains hot enough to fry the wiring in robots ferreting out melted
fuel rods.