摘要 |
A new design concept of boiling water reactor fuel rod is disclosed. The new design is characterized by an upward shift in the location of the fuel pellet stack inside the fuel cladding. The resulting axial power shift upward decreases two-phase and total pressure drop and has a stabilizing effect. A device for affecting such fuel pellet displacement is a crushable tube placed under the fuel pellet stack, which also helps to mitigate fuel-clad mechanical interaction and reduces the likelihood of clad failure.
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