Research Article
A New Fuel Design for Two Different HW Type Reactors
Table 2
Hydraulic parameters of the hottest (design case) fuel channel.
| | Reactor Data | | Embalse [13] | CANDU in Atucha I |
| | Mass flow | 23.94 Kg/s | 32.90 Kg/s | | Average liquid density () | 800 Kg/m3 | 832 Kg/m3 | | Channel diameter | 103.8 | 108.2 | | Fuel chain length () | 6 m | 5 m | | FEs chain number () | 12 | 10 |
| | Results | |
| | Average velocity () | 8.57 m/s | 9.36 m/s | | Hydraulic diameter () | 7.56 mm | 9.08 mm | | Fuel chain pressure drop () | 608 KPa | 539 KPa |
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