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• 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

• Fuel element failure — A fuel element failure is a rupture in a nuclear reactor s fuel cladding that allows the nuclear fuel or fission products in the form of dissolved radioisotopes or hot particles to enter the reactor coolant or storage water.The de facto standard… …   Wikipedia

• Fuel fleas — are microscopic hot particles of new or spent nuclear fuel. While small, they tend to be intensely radioactive. The fuel particles, the size about 10 micrometers, are a strong source of beta and gamma radiation and a weaker source of alpha… …   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

• cladding — /ˈklædɪŋ / (say klading) noun 1. a covering of any kind, especially one attached to a building structure, or the like. 2. the process of covering one metal with a thin layer of another metal, in order to prevent corrosion. 3. Physics fuel… …  

• 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

• 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

• 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

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• 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