29 Facts About Nuclear fuel

Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines.

Nuclear fuel has the highest energy density of all practical fuel sources.

Fission reactors, the Nuclear fuel is usually based on the metal oxide; the oxides are used rather than the metals themselves because the oxide melting point is much higher than that of the metal and because it cannot burn, being already in the oxidized state.

MOX fuel is an alternative to low enriched uranium fuel used in the light water reactors which predominate nuclear power generation.

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, was a U S proposal in the George W Bush Administration to form an international partnership to see spent nuclear fuel reprocessed in a way that renders the plutonium in it usable for nuclear fuel but not for nuclear weapons.

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Reprocessing of spent commercial-reactor nuclear fuel has not been permitted in the United States due to nonproliferation considerations.

Normally, with the Nuclear fuel being changed every three years or so, about half of the Pu-239 is 'burned' in the reactor, providing about one third of the total energy.

The TRIGA reactor uses UZrH Nuclear fuel, which has a prompt negative Nuclear fuel temperature coefficient of reactivity, meaning that as the temperature of the core increases, the reactivity decreases—so it is highly unlikely for a meltdown to occur.

TRIGA fuel was originally designed to use highly enriched uranium, however in 1978 the U S Department of Energy launched its Reduced Enrichment for Research Test Reactors program, which promoted reactor conversion to low-enriched uranium fuel.

Metal actinide Nuclear fuel is typically an alloy of zirconium, uranium, plutonium, and minor actinides.

Nuclear fuel graphite discharged from reactors where it was used as a moderator presents the same issue.

Liquid fuels are liquids containing dissolved nuclear fuel and have been shown to offer numerous operational advantages compared to traditional solid fuel approaches.

Liquid-Nuclear fuel reactors offer significant safety advantages due to their inherently stable "self-adjusting" reactor dynamics.

Such Nuclear fuel pellets are then stacked and filled into the metallic tubes.

The finished Nuclear fuel rods are grouped into Nuclear fuel assemblies that are used to build up the core of a power reactor.

Cladding is the outer layer of the fuel rods, standing between the coolant and the nuclear fuel.

In boiling water reactors, the Nuclear fuel is similar to PWR Nuclear fuel except that the bundles are "canned".

Each BWR Nuclear fuel rod is backfilled with helium to a pressure of about 3 standard atmospheres .

Various other nuclear fuel forms find use in specific applications, but lack the widespread use of those found in BWRs, PWRs, and CANDU power plants.

Many of these Nuclear fuel forms are only found in research reactors, or have military applications.

Magnox Nuclear fuel incorporated cooling fins to provide maximum heat transfer despite low operating temperatures, making it expensive to produce.

TRISO Nuclear fuel particles were originally developed in the United Kingdom as part of the Dragon reactor project.

Currently, TRISO Nuclear fuel compacts are being used in some experimental reactors, such as the HTR-10 in China and the High-temperature engineering test reactor in Japan.

Spherical Nuclear fuel elements utilizing a TRISO particle with a UO2 and UC solid solution kernel are being used in the Xe-100 in the United States.

RBMK reactor Nuclear fuel was used in Soviet-designed and built RBMK-type reactors.

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Plate-type Nuclear fuel is commonly composed of enriched uranium sandwiched between metal cladding.

Plate-type Nuclear fuel is used in several research reactors where a high neutron flux is desired, for uses such as material irradiation studies or isotope production, without the high temperatures seen in ceramic, cylindrical Nuclear fuel.

Accident tolerant fuels are a series of new nuclear fuel concepts, researched in order to improve fuel performance under accident conditions, such as loss-of-coolant accident or reaction-initiated accidents .

Nuclear fuel has the highest Maxwellian reactivity of any 3rd generation fusion fuel.