(Credit: DoE) Now it seems that silicon carbide (SiC) may soon replace the traditional zirconium alloy with General Atomics’ SiGa fuel cladding, which has been tested over the past 120 days in ...

Hana Materials, Inc. manufactures and sells silicon materials for semiconductor products. Its products include silicon ingot, electrode, ring, silicon carbide, fine ceramics and specialty gases.

Bellmann described the discarded sawdust silicon powder as “black gold” and said that around 35% of the silicon in ingot and wafer ... smelt silicon for silicon carbide production.