Considerable production gains might be attained if each reactor discharged its entire flattened region during one scheduled outage instead of utilizing several outages for this purpose. Several of the older reactors are now discharging a high percentage of their flattened zones in a single outage and could be put into this type of operation with relatively little difficulty. Production gains may be possible through better flattening efficiency, a more favorable rupture rate effect, fewer non-equilibrium losses, higher conversion ratio, and more efficient usage of outage work. Since this document is written Primarily from the Operational Physics standpoint, some gains and …
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Considerable production gains might be attained if each reactor discharged its entire flattened region during one scheduled outage instead of utilizing several outages for this purpose. Several of the older reactors are now discharging a high percentage of their flattened zones in a single outage and could be put into this type of operation with relatively little difficulty. Production gains may be possible through better flattening efficiency, a more favorable rupture rate effect, fewer non-equilibrium losses, higher conversion ratio, and more efficient usage of outage work. Since this document is written Primarily from the Operational Physics standpoint, some gains and pitfalls which must be evaluated by other affected groups will only be mentioned here as possibilities. The purpose of this document is simply to point out the potential gains in flattening efficiency from this method. Potential gains from improved fuel performance have been described in another document.
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