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PWR Cores with Silicon Carbide Cladding
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Program, 2011-04)
The use in present generation PWRs of fuel clad with silicon carbide rather than Zircaloy
has been evaluated as an aid to reaching higher discharge burnups and to operation at higher
reactor power levels. A preliminary ...