Nuclear fuel
Nuclear fuel is a material that can be consumed to take over nuclear energy, by analogy to chemical fuel that is burned for energy. Nuclear fuels are the most dense sources of energy available.
Most nuclear fuels contain heavy fissile elements which to undergo a nuclear fission chain reaction in a nuclear reactor. The most common nuclear fuels are uranium and plutonium but not all nuclear fuels are used in reactors.[1] Some of them power radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
Nuclear Fuel Media
Diagram of nuclear waste and the nuclear fuel cycle
A graph comparing nucleon number against binding energy
Close-up of a replica of the core of the research reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin
The thermal conductivity of zirconium metal and uranium dioxide as a function of temperature
PWR fuel assembly (also known as a fuel bundle) This fuel assembly is from a pressurized water reactor of the nuclear-powered passenger and cargo ship NS Savannah. Designed and built by the Babcock & Wilcox Company.
CANDU fuel bundles, each about 50 cm long, 10 cm in diameter.
Photo of a magnox nuclear fuel rod.
0.845 mm TRISO fuel particle which has been cracked, showing multiple layers that are coating the spherical kernel
quadriso particle
RBMK reactor fuel rod holder 1 – distancing armature; 2 – fuel rods shell; 3 – fuel tablets.
Notes
- ↑ "Nuclear Fusion Power WNA". Archived from the original on 2012-12-25. Retrieved 2011-03-23.