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- noun an
alloy ofmagnesium andaluminium used, with a non-oxidizing cover, ascladding forfuel rods inMagnox nuclear power stations
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Examples
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Intermediate level waste mainly comprising magnox fuel cladding was stored under water within the facility.
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The biggest threat was to Thorp because the remaining two evaporators were needed to deal with the high hazard radioactive liquor stocks and magnox reprocessing.
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I speculate that this is probably because magnox alloy, being non-radioactive, is harder to detect than uranium.
ArmsControlWonk 2008
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As Vitaly Fedchenko explains in this excellent article environmental samples are first screened by the IAEA using high resolution gamma ray spectrometry to detect radioactive particles-and that ain't much help in looking for magnox alloy.
ArmsControlWonk 2008
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This leads me to conclude the particles must be metallic uranium as this is what's used in magnox fuel.
ArmsControlWonk 2008
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