Nuclear fuel pellets. Box of nuclear fuel pellets ready to be loaded into fuel pins at a nuclear fuel assembly factory. These nuclear fuel pellets contain mixed oxide (MOX) fuel,which is a mixture of plutonium and uranium. The uranium and plutonium are mixed together as a powder and turned into the ceramic (oxidised) fuel pellets seen here. The fuel pellets are then loaded one on top of the other into long fuel pins,up to 3 metres long,and used to create controlled nuclear fission reactions in nuclear reactors. Millions of these pellets are used in a nuclear reactor. This is the Melox factory in Marcoule,France. Photographed in 2004 | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Landmann, Patrick |
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