Fuel assembly

摘要

The invention provides a fuel assembly comprising a plurality of fuel rods containing a fissionable material and a plurality of moderator rods filled with a burnable poison and a metal hydride as a solid moderator material. All of the burnable poison in the fuel assembly is filled in the moderator rods, and number of the moderator rods is at least 4 and not more than 15% of total number of the fuel rods and the moderator rods.