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Molten reactor fuel, aka "corium", represents a mixture of mostly uranium dioxide (fuel) and various metals incorporated from containment apparatus. Photo from the VULCANO[

Date: 28/07/04
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mike

Falcon PAWNCH!!!

Posted by Guest on Mon 30 Nov 2009 10:12:46 PST

sweet_som

what is this stuff?

Posted by Guest on Wed 28 May 2008 03:56:22 PDT

timi

rofl

Posted by Guest on Wed 14 May 2008 16:07:59 PDT

$H@KTI

This Corium stuff burns trough aboud every material,How can their be testacility,s where they actually create this creepy stuff???Isn,t this mad to do???

Posted by Guest on Fri 09 Mar 2007 14:50:50 PST

AndyK

Tho I expect the real corium is more corrosive - radiation has a way of trumping chemical bonds.

Posted by Guest on Thu 19 Oct 2006 06:03:49 PDT

WAG

U-dioxide isn't enriched to "fiss." It can be super-heated to simulate corium. That's what they learned me in skool.

Posted by Guest on Thu 10 Aug 2006 00:28:19 PDT

duralinux

I didn't know there were test facilities that do that... I mean what would happen if a criticality event occured?

Posted by Guest on Thu 04 May 2006 15:56:18 PDT

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"Corium" is only formed during a reactor meltdown as a product of the solid fuel fissioning uncontrolably. This super-hot fuel turns into a liquid and melts its way through steel, concrete, and whatever else that might be in contact with it.

"Corium" is only formed during a reactor meltdown as a product of the solid fuel fissioning uncontrolably. This super-hot fuel turns into a liquid and melts its way through steel, concrete, and whatever else that might be in contact with it.

So it's a mixture of fuel and various building materials. The VULCANO facility I believe can change the proportions of various components to see how corium reacts to different containment/building structures.

Posted by Guest on Thu 04 May 2006 10:40:42 PDT

duralinux@gmail.com

Last time I checked steel is NOT reactor fuel... so is that steel or reactor fuel?

Posted by Guest on Mon 01 May 2006 12:44:51 PDT

bobyjoe

well... duh man its steel (jk)

Posted by Guest on Thu 27 Apr 2006 16:34:10 PDT

duralinux@gmail.com

So is that actual fuel for a reactor in the photo?

Posted by Guest on Thu 27 Apr 2006 10:38:37 PDT

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