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Safety Features of Operating Light Water Reactors of Western Design, Gavrilas, Hejzlar, Todreas, Shatilla.

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Public Attitudes Toward America’s Energy Options: Insights for Nuclear Energy Stephen Ansolabehere (June 2007).

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On the Use of High Performance Annular Fuel in PWRs
Bo Feng, Pavel Hejzlar and Mujid S. Kazimi (June 2008)

Abstract

Recently, MIT’s Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems developed a new high burnup annular fuel that features both internal and external cooling. Implementation of this fuel design in current pressurized water reactors (PWRs) will allow power uprates up to 50% while maintaining or improving the existing thermal and safety margins. Each annular fuel assembly is arranged in a 13x13 array but has the same side dimensions as a 17x17 solid fuel assembly. Even at much higher power densities, the peak fuel temperatures are substantially lower and the MDNBR is comparable to that of solid fuel at 100% power. The main motivation for utilizing this fuel is the lower capital construction cost per kilowatt of electrical production compared to reactors using solid fuel. Full Abstract>