Cladding — is the covering of one material with another. It may refer to the following: Cladding (metalworking) Cladding (fiber optics) Cladding (construction) Copper cladding Rainscreen cladding Cladding (nuclear fuel) Cladding (boiler) See also CLAD… … Wikipedia
cladding — [[t]klæ̱dɪŋ[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT: oft n N Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive. ...stone cladding. Syn:… … English dictionary
Nuclear fuel cycle — The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the front end, which are the preparation of the fuel, steps in the service period in which… … Wikipedia
Behavior of nuclear fuel during a reactor accident — This page is devoted to a discussion of how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions such as overheating. Work in this area is often very expensive to conduct, and so… … Wikipedia
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Nuclear fuel response to reactor accidents — This page is devoted to a discussion of how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions such as overheating. Work in this area is often very expensive to conduct, and so… … Wikipedia
Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask — A typical SNF shipping cask mounted on a railroad car. Spent nuclear fuel shipping casks are used to transport spent nuclear fuel used in nuclear power plants and research reactors to disposal sites such as the nuclear reprocessing center at… … Wikipedia
Spent nuclear fuel — Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant) to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction. Nuclear… … Wikipedia
Spent fuel pool — (SFP) are storage pools for spent fuel from nuclear reactors. Typically 40 or more feet deep, with the bottom 14 feet equipped with storage racks designed to hold fuel assemblies removed from the reactor. These fuel pools are specially designed… … Wikipedia
Gas Cooled Reactor — A Gas Cooled Reactor (more commonly called a GCR) is a generation I nuclear reactor that uses graphite as a neutron moderator and carbon dioxide as coolant. Although there are many other types of reactor cooled by gas, the terms GCR and to a… … Wikipedia
Nuclear power in China — As of 2008, the People s Republic of China (not including Taiwan) has 11 nuclear power reactors spread out over 4 separate sites. While this puts it at 12th in the world currently for power production by nuclear, it has one of the most ambitious… … Wikipedia
