David Petti, the director of the Idaho National Lab's Very High Temperature Reactor technology development project, holds up what is known as a compact. An inch long and half an inch in diameter, it is made up of a large number of compressed fuel pellets, made of uranium and covered in three coating layers. Once compressed, the pellet is coated in graphite.
The pellets are designed to perform at temperatures of up to 1600 degrees Celsius in a nuclear reactor and not fail.
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The pellets are designed to perform at temperatures of up to 1600 degrees Celsius in a nuclear reactor and not fail.
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- They all still scare me to death, I have worked inside one I have seen up close what they do in there and the way they handle that stuff, that is one job you can keep...... (Read the rest)
- Posted by: JimiB Posted on: 07/11/09 You are currently: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use
Not sure about the "... world's first..." bit.
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