To minimize the risk of the radioactive material being released, the fuel is stored in individual modular units with their own heat shielding.
Automobiles may use gold for heat shielding.
This material has been used most recently as the heat shielding on the Mars Pathfinder vehicle.
The heat shielding issues were solved and the large radiator was dressed up with chrome screens and frames.
It was a hole in the heat shielding that led to the loss of the shuttle Columbia last year and its crew of seven.
Internal combustion engines can also get extremely hot, which may require additional weight from cooling systems or heat shielding.
You do understand, don't you, that besides beautification, outer hull embellishment has a very serious function as heat and friction shielding material?
Blink and it's a signal device, blink again and it's heat shielding.
Might even have equipment to repair the heat shielding.
Explosive, corrosive liquids, flowing only meters from her heat shielding, always made her edgy.