What aspects of boron carbide are used in the nuclear industry?
What aspects of boron carbide are used in the nuclear industry? Boron carbide is used to make control rods, regulating rods, accident rods, safety rods, and shielding rods of nuclear reactors, and to make boron carbide tiles, plates or neutron absorbers (made of high B10 content powder) for radiation protection, or the same as cement