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Investigations of the fresh-core cycle-length and the average fuel depletion analysis of the NuScale core

Sadegh-Noedoost et al., 2020

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6832972919393439966
Author
Sadegh-Noedoost A
Faghihi F
Fakhraei A
Amin-Mozafari M
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Annals of Nuclear Energy

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Fresh cores with a few changes on the fuel enrichment and/or gadolinium content of the Fuel Assemblies (FAs) are proposed for a typical PWR-Small Modular Reactor called NuScale. Many neutronics as well as Thermal Hydraulics (TH) Core Design Basis Limits for the first …
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