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fuel element



An assembly of fuel rods into which the nuclear fuel is inserted in a reactor. A fuel element of a pressurized-water reactor contains about 530 kg of uranium, that of a boiling-water reactor about 190 kg of uranium.


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Source: European Nuclear Society


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