Published 2017
| Version v1
Book
The GAIA Fuel Assembly
Description
Lead assemblies of GAIA – the latest AREVA PWR fuel assemblies design - reached now the final assembly burn up of in average 59 MWd/kgU and confirm all expectations. GAIA provides very high resistance to fuel assembly bow, higher thermal hydraulic performance, intrinsically safe behavior under seismic conditions and a better resistance against debris thanks to GRIP. In summary, GAIA reduces operating costs due to the possibility to achieve higher burnup level and potential of more uranium loading than any other current commercially available fuel assembly. First reload contracts are signed and GAIA fuel assemblies for reloads will be delivered from 2019 onwards.
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Editorial Senda
- Imprint Place
- Malaga (Spain)
- Imprint Title
- 43rd Annual Meeting of the Spanish Nuclear Society
- Imprint Pagination
- 123 p.
- Journal Page Range
- 5 p.
Conference
- Title
- 43. Annual Meeting of the Spanish Nuclear Society
- Dates
- 4-6 Oct 2017
- Place
- Malaga (Spain)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Spain
- Country of Input or Organization
- Spain
- INIS RN
- 49058371
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- FUEL ASSEMBLIES; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION DETECTION; RADIATION PROTECTION; SEISMIC EFFECTS; URANIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; DETECTION; ELEMENTS; METALS