Where are control rods made?

[SloGlo]

Jason, you are showing your youth.  Today's commercial fuel looks like Navy fuel compared to what it was when I started.  Just opening a steam generator manway or lifting the reactor head would necessitate a containment evacuation fifteen or twenty years ago.

gnaw, we save evacuation fer when we lit off da black powder ina s/g tubes.   

[Already Gone]

First burn leaker doesn't have to equal manufacturing defect.  Your chemistry control might just be awful.  You might be cycling the plant too much because your maintenance sucks.  Perhaps your FME program is a total joke.  Or maybe the stuff that got dropped in the pot before FME was a big deal has come home to roost.

[Rad Sponge]

First burn leaker doesn't have to equal manufacturing defect.  Your chemistry control might just be awful.  You might be cycling the plant too much because your maintenance sucks.  Perhaps your FME program is a total joke.  Or maybe the stuff that got dropped in the pot before FME was a big deal has come home to roost.

sounds plausible to me.

[atomicarcheologist]

So you agree with the statement made by the other guys I talked to. Thanks for your input, tr. And justatech, if you really have the information, would you please let me know.

And the material we are making is Indium. I also wonder how many or what kind of reactors are using the Ag-In-Cd (if I remember it right) as control rods?

Thanks for the help.

As someone who is not of graduate student rank but is stationed at a site where control rod and the accompanying drives are manufactured I wonder about an Indium manufacture who does not know who the nuclear customer would be.  Is there that much of a demand for the product that production is in progress and business transacted and the nuclear industry is being thought of as an "after the fact" customer?  What are these other customers and how much would they be buying versus the nuclear control rod manufacturers?

[Fermi2]

Something like 98% of fuel leakers are caused by something the plant did and not by a weld defect. In fact of the leakers I've seen only one was due to a weld defect.

Mike

[tr]

Correct me if I am wrong, but Combustion Engineering no longer exists.  CE was purchased by ABB in the early 90's, and it's nuclear division recently sold to Westinghouse.   B&W's nuclear assets are now owned by Areva?

Westinghouse is now owned by Toshiba and the Shaw Group.