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Why are they specifying cadmium? Is it acting as an anode?

Why not just make the whole thing out of titanium if corrosion is the issue?
Yeah...we need the neutron absorption capabilities of the cadmium. We have looked into other materials, but they are either very exotic or even harder to apply and machine than cadmium.
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