Uranium carbide, a carbide of uranium, is a hard refractory ceramic material. It comes in several stoichiometries (x differs in UCx), such as uranium...

nuclear batteries called diamond batteries. Much of what is known about uranium carbide is in the form of pin-type fuel elements for liquid metal fast reactors...

into uranium hexafluoride and production of the fuel (again usually uranium dioxide, but sometimes uranium carbide, uranium hydride or uranium nitride)...

reactors. The thermal conductivity of uranium dioxide is very low when compared with uranium, uranium nitride, uranium carbide and zirconium cladding material...

create reactive uranium powder along with various uranium carbide, nitride, and halide compounds. Two crystal modifications of uranium hydride exist: an...

Tungsten carbide (chemical formula: WC) is a chemical compound (specifically, a carbide) containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms. In its most...

Cumulative update, a group of updates bundled into one Chemical formula of uranium carbide Cairo University, Egypt Covenant University, Nigeria Chandigarh University...

design of the reactor core included thermal insulation between uranium carbide/tungsten carbide fuel and the zirconium hydride moderator. This allowed for...

create reactive uranium powder along with various uranium carbide, nitride, and halide compounds. Two crystal modifications of uranium hydride exist: an...

uranium dioxide, however, uranium carbide or uranium oxycarbide are also possibilities. Uranium oxycarbide combines uranium carbide with the uranium dioxide...

carbide comes in several stoichiometries (PuC and Pu2C3). It can be used as a nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors in conjunction with uranium carbide....

This property makes uranium hydrides convenient starting materials to create reactive uranium powder along with various uranium carbide, nitride, and halide...

the city of Geneva. This laboratory uses mainly proton spallation of uranium carbide targets to produce a wide range of radioactive fission fragments that...

plutonium-uranium mixed carbide fuel and liquid sodium as a coolant. The fuel is an indigenous mix of 70 percent plutonium carbide and 30 percent uranium carbide...

novel fuel packaging. The uranium, thorium or plutonium nuclear fuels are in the form of a ceramic (usually oxides or carbides) contained within spherical...

were uranium carbide-zirconium carbide "composite" fuel cells and two contained a seven-element cluster of single-hole pure uranium-zirconium carbide fuel...

new Special Mineral Enrichment Facility which focuses on enrichment of uranium fuel is under construction[when?] in Atchutapuram near Visakhapatnam in...

drone Ultrasonic consolidation, an additive manufacturing technology Uranium carbide, a hard refractive ceramic material Uniform polyhedron compound, a...

Armor) and later American tank variants, a depleted uranium alloy. Some companies offer titanium carbide modules. These metal modules function on the principle...

or by bombarding a uranium carbide target with energetic protons in a particle accelerator. Another method is to bombard uranium-238 with fast neutrons...

the production of uranium carbide fuel for nuclear reactors. The Gravimetric Determination of Carbon in Uranium-Plutonium Carbide Materials, Los Alamos...

assembled super-critical mass of uranium would be completely surrounded by a tamper and neutron reflector of tungsten carbide and steel, both materials having...

phenomena. Vitreous carbon was fabricated with Uranium carbide inclusions, on experimental scale, using Uranium 238. On 11 October 2011, research conducted...

molten uranium could be cast in a graphite container. Although graphite was known to react with uranium, this could be managed because the carbide formed...

(highly 235 U enriched) uranium fuel initially, then in 2022 switched to using MOX. The Indian prototype reactor uses uranium-carbide fuel. While criticality...

reactor Uranium carbide Uranium oxide R. B. Matthews; K. M. Chidester; C. W. Hoth; R. E. Mason; R. L. Petty (1988). "Fabrication and testing of uranium nitride...

uranium ore reserves in the US. Some lignite coal in southwest North Dakota contains economic quantities of uranium. From 1965 to 1967 Union Carbide operated...

series was fueled by tiny uranium dioxide (UO2) spheres embedded in a low-boron graphite matrix and coated with niobium carbide. Nineteen holes ran the...

and Kellex transferred the last unit to Union Carbide on 11 September 1945. Highly enriched uranium was used in the Little Boy atomic bomb used in the...

Zirconium carbide (ZrC) is an extremely hard refractory ceramic material, commercially used in tool bits for cutting tools. It is usually processed by...