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Book Synopsis Extended Burnup Core Management for Once-through Uranium Fuel Cycles in LWRS. First Annual Report for the Period 1 July 1979-30 June 1980 by :
Download or read book Extended Burnup Core Management for Once-through Uranium Fuel Cycles in LWRS. First Annual Report for the Period 1 July 1979-30 June 1980 written by . This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed core management arrangements are developed requiring four operating cycles for the transition from present three-batch loading to an extended burnup four-batch plan for Zion-1. The ARMP code EPRI-NODE-P was used for core modeling. Although this work is preliminary, uranium and economic savings during the transition cycles appear of the order of 6 percent.