zircaloy
- noun
- Specialized
- The cladding for nuclear reactor fuel rods is made of zircaloy due to its strength and durability.
- Zircaloy-4 alloy
- zircaloy tubes
Examples
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Without the water, they may suffer a fire when the zircaloy cladding reaches over 2000 degrees F and spontaneously reacts with oxygen in the air.
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The Zircaloy-4 was in a recrystallized metallurgical state with isotropic texture.
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Cr-coated Zircaloy claddings were studied at the CEA as potential "**32;0;TOOLONG" for LWRs.
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From 1989 to '99, Stout advanced from task leader for Zircaloy cladding to technical area leader for waste form characterization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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The material used in this study was a Zircaloy-4 sheet that was coated with Cr using a PVD (physical vapor deposition) process.
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In a Zircaloy-4 alloy, Vander Sande et al. reported the existence of a Zr-Cr-Fe phase and showed that these phases exhibit a hexagonal C14 structure.
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For a Zircaloy-2 alloy, Meng et al. reported a Zr(Cr, Fe)2 Laves phase with a C14 hexagonal structure.
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This Cr-coated Zircaloy-4 is a first generation-coated Zircaloy-4 sample, and it is not fully representative of the recent Cr-coated claddings developed in the CEA-FRAMATOME-EDF three-party research program.
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This Cr-coated Zircaloy-4 is a first generation-coated Zircaloy-4 sample, and it is not fully representative of the recent Cr-coated claddings developed in the CEA-FRAMATOME-EDF three-party research program.
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The nuclear reactor's efficiency depends significantly on the quality of its zircaloy cladding.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word zircaloy is a modern name made from the metal zirconium and the word alloy, which means a 'metal mix'. So zircaloy literally means a 'zirconium metal mix', which explains why it is the zirconium-based alloy used to cover fuel rods in nuclear reactors.