Research Article
A New Fuel Design for Two Different HW Type Reactors
Table 14
WIMS results, neutronic differences between CARA and CANDU and Atucha I.
| Characteristic | CANDU 37 | Atucha I | CARA (in Embalse) | CARA (in Atucha I) |
| Natural uranium-burnup [MW·d/ton·UO2] | 7.500 | 6.100 | 7.529 | 6.368 | Peak factor | 1.1261 | 1.0936 | 1.1359 | 1.1483 | SEU (0.9%)-burnup [MW·d/ton·UO2] | 14.537 | 13.466 | 14.576 | 14.524 | Peak factor | — | — | 1.1484 | 1.1577 |
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