From the military point of view, as long as add 1/1000 of the zirconium into the steel, the hardness and strength will be strikingly improved. The important materials for the manufacturing of armored vehicles, tanks, artillery and bullet proof plate are the armor steel, artillery piece, steel, stainless steel and heat resisting steel with zirconium.

From the point of view of atomic energy and nuclear energy, zirconium has prominent nuclear power, which is an indispensable material for the development of atomic energy industry. China's large nuclear power plants generally uses zirconium material, if use the nuclear power to generate power, power generation capacity of one million kilowatts will consume 20 to 25 tons of zirconium metal per year. A thirty thousand horsepower nuclear submarine uses the pressure tube that uses the zirconium alloy as fuel material, the using amount of zirconium alloy can be up to 30 to 20 tons.

Zirconium is a kind of rare metal, it has an amazing corrosion resistance, high melting point, high hardness and strength and other characteristics, which is widely used in aerospace, military, nuclear reactions, atomic energy fields. The melting point of zirconium is at 1800 degrees or more, the melting point of the zirconium anhydride is more than 2700 degree, so as aerospace materials, zirconium’s various aspects of the performance is greatly superior to titanium.