Abstract:Recently, an initiative has been made to improve the fuel economy of VVER-440 reactors by implementing a modification on the geometry of the current fuel assembly design. The proposed modification involves reduction of the fuel rod outer diameter from 0.91 cm to 0.89 cm by using 0.01 cm thinner cladding tubes than earlier. The design improvement would shift the neutronics of an under-moderated system slightly towards optimum moderation and, therefore, increase the reactivity of the assembly. In this paper, a n… Show more
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