Improvement of WWER-440 commercial fuel rod construction for burn-up extension Academic Article

abstract

• The WWER-440 fuel element construction, designed for a four-year medium burn-up in a maximum strained fuel element of 59 MWday per kg of uranium and calculation results of thermomechanical characteristics of such a fuel element are described, using PIN-04M code. Some results of studies of one fuel assembly after its four- year operation at the Novovoronezhskaya NPP-unit 3 are presented. The conducted studies, operational experience and calculations indicate the possibility and advisability of operating the WWER-440 modernized fuel element construction in the course of four years.

authors

• Yakovlev, Vladislav

published proceedings

• Atomnaya Energiya

author list (cited authors)

• Dubrovin, K. P., Proselkov, V. N., Strizhov, P. N., Yakovlev, V. V., Kolosovskij, V. G., & Nikishov, O. A.

complete list of authors

• Dubrovin, KP||Proselkov, VN||Strizhov, PN||Yakovlev, VV||Kolosovskij, VG||Nikishov, OA

publication date

• February 1992

published in

• Atomnaya Energiya  Journal

start page

• 121

end page

• 124

volume

• 72

issue

• 2