{"id":245353,"date":"2026-10-14T01:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/3d-imaging-technique-examines-nuclear-fuel-rod-corrosion-at-nanoscale-resolution"},"modified":"2026-10-14T01:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:55:17","slug":"3d-imaging-technique-examines-nuclear-fuel-rod-corrosion-at-nanoscale-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/3d-imaging-technique-examines-nuclear-fuel-rod-corrosion-at-nanoscale-resolution","title":{"rendered":"3D imaging technique examines nuclear fuel rod corrosion at nanoscale resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-imaging-technique-examines-nuclear-fuel-rod-corrosion-at-nanoscale-resolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cladding tubes of the fuel rods used in nuclear reactors must remain leak-tight\u2014despite the risk of corrosion from the surrounding cooling water and despite the radiation they are exposed to during operation. It is therefore important to know how quickly corrosion layers form and how porous they are.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have now used a new technique to visualize these changes in the cladding material in three dimensions for the first time, achieving a resolution in the nanometer range.<\/p>\n<p>Another distinguishing feature of their experiment is that the samples they examined were taken from cladding tubes that had actually been in service in a nuclear power plant. The tubes were able to withstand the stresses involved: They were still leak-tight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cladding tubes of the fuel rods used in nuclear reactors must remain leak-tight\u2014despite the risk of corrosion from the surrounding cooling water and despite the radiation they are exposed to during operation. It is therefore important to know how quickly corrosion layers form and how porous they are. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}