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Title: Fuel element design handbook

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/26552· OSTI ID:26552

The economic development of nuclear reactors depends upon the integrated progress in the fields of reactor design, fuel element design, reactor operation, and fuel production and separation. Broad criteria, which restrict the fuel element design, are determined by the mutual consideration of the problems encountered in all the above fields. Hence, no stage of reactor design or operation is independent of the fuel element problem, nor can the fuel element designer disregard the interest of any one field. As an introduction to the fuel element design problem, this chapter describes how the general criteria for a fuel element are determined.

Research Organization:
General Electric Co., Richland, WA (United States). Hanford Atomic Products Operation
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
26552
Report Number(s):
HW-51000-Del.; ON: DE95006604; TRN: 95:002746
Resource Relation:
Other Information: DN: Declassified; PBD: 1 Sep 1958
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English