MOX fuel#Thermal reactors

A mixed oxide ( MOX short ) is a substance composed of several oxides. Although often the term MOX is equated with the uranium -plutonium mixture, there are many other mixed oxides.

Applications

Electronics

Indium tin oxide ( ITO ) is an important in the electronics oxide. The substance is used for the production of transparent electrodes in liquid crystal displays, organic light emitting diodes, and touch screens. Furthermore, it is used in thin-film solar cells as well as the wiring of semiconductor sensors. Since ITO infrared radiation strongly reflected, it is occasionally applied as thermal insulation on window glass. Likewise, a wide variety of surfaces, such as plastic films, are coated with ITO, so they do not become electrostatically charged.

Color pigment

Nickel titanium yellow is a yellow pigment comprising a mixture of nickel oxide, titanium oxide and antimony ( V) oxide

Nuclear Engineering

In nuclear MOX fuel are used as fuel in part, composed of uranium dioxide UO2 and PuO2 plutonium. Today they are in different countries ( proven: France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan ) used in nuclear reactors to recycle the separated during reprocessing plutonium and to make the same for nuclear weapons largely unusable.

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