Physics A-Level
Fuel rods
What Fuel rods means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Fuel rods
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Reference: OCR
These hold fissile material such as uranium-235, often as uranium dioxide, and provide the nuclei that undergo induced fission.
Topics that use Fuel rods
- Nuclear fission and fusion (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Alpha and beta decay
- Barium
- Binding energy
- Binding energy per nucleon against nucleon number curve
- Chain reactions
- Characteristic X-rays from shell transitions
- Compton effect
- Computer reconstruction of attenuation data
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