Research Article

A New Fuel Design for Two Different HW Type Reactors

Table 4

Atucha I and CANDU-6 Core data.

Atucha IEmbalse

Thermal power [MW]1.1791.992
Fuel channels250380
Core length [m]5.35.95
Core diameter [m]4.45.9
Rods per FE3737
Fuel rod linear Uranium density [kgUO2/m]0.911.16