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 Mixed use to make nuclear reactor shielding layer is an important functional component next to nuclear fuel components. Features: Boron carbide can absorb a large amount of neutrons without forming any radioactive isotopes, so it is an ideal neutron absorber and nuclear reactor core component in nuclear power plants. The neutron absorber is mainly used to control the speed of the nuclear reactor, but it is made into a powder to increase the surface area. Boron carbide has high neutron absorption cross-section, wide absorption energy spectrum, low price, rich source of raw materials, and no strong secondary radiation of lambda rays after absorbing neutrons, so the waste is easy to handle, so boron carbide is an important neutron absorber Material.