zircalloy

(zɜːkˈælɔɪ)

(Metallurgy) an alloy of zirconium containing small amounts of tin, chromium, and nickel. It is used in pressurized-water reactors

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References in periodicals archive

Lee, "Safety evaluation of accident-tolerant FCM fueled core with SiC-coated zircalloy cladding for design-basis-accidents and beyond DBAs," Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol.

Assessment of Neutronic Characteristics of Accident-Tolerant Fuel and Claddings for CANDU Reactors

The SRNL NAA facility holds six doubly encapsulated Cf-252 pods in a zircalloy source holder near the bottom of a de-ionized light water, 4-meter deep, 1.2-meter diameter tank.

Removal and sequestration of iodide from alkaline solutions using silver-doped carbon nanotubes

It's not unusual for Strite to work with materials such as carbon steels hardened to 58/62 [R.sub.c]; stainless steels, such as 17-5 PH and 13-8 PH; 304; hasteloy; titanium; zircalloy; beryllium; copper; hymu-80; Inconel[R]; macro ceramics; nitralloy; nitrol and other more-exotic materials.

The same old grind isn't enough: when it comes to machining hard materials, this north-of-the-border company puts its expertise on the line, a line now measured to a tolerance 10 times better than before

The reactor core contains uranium fuel clad in zircalloy tubes.

French lessons in nuclear power

Diffusion Bonding--Originally, the process was developed to produce larger components of small Zircalloy clad pin type nuclear fuel elements.

Upgrading castings by hot isostatic processing

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