Fuel assembly and core of fast reactor
AssigneeHitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
InventorsKouji FUJIMURA, Junichi MIWA
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AssigneeHitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
InventorsKouji FUJIMURA, Junichi MIWA
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To provide is a fuel assembly capable of easily adjusting average MA enrichment in an inner blanket region. An inner core fuel assembly 7 loaded in an inner core region 2 of a core of a fast reactor includes a plurality of fuel rods 10 and a plurality of fuel rods 19. Each of the fuel rods 10 includes a lower core fuel region 12, an inner blanket region 11, and an upper core fuel region 13. A U—Pu—Zr metal fuel is disposed in the lower core fuel region 12 and the upper core fuel region 13, and a U—Zr metal fuel is disposed in the inner blanket region 11. Each of the fuel rods 19 includes a lower core fuel region 12, an inner blanket region 20, and an upper core fuel region 13. A U—Pu—Zr metal fuel is disposed in the lower core fuel region 12 and the upper core fuel region 13 of the fuel rod 19, and a MA-Zr metal fuel is disposed in the inner blanket region 20. By adjusting the number of the fuel rods 10 and the number of the fuel rods 19, MA enrichment in the inner blanket region 9 of the fuel assembly 7 can be easily adjusted.
A fuel assembly in which a nuclear fuel material region in which a nuclear fuel material is present is formed, and a first lower core fuel region, a first inner blanket region, and a first upper core fuel region are formed in the nuclear fuel material region in this order from a lower end to an upper end of the nuclear fuel material region, the fuel assembly comprising:
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