Impact of thicker cladding on the nuclea
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Marjan Kromar; Bojan Kurinčič
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Article
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2011
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Elsevier Science
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English
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To make fuel rods more resistant to grid-to-rod fretting or other cladding penetration failures, the cladding thickness could be increased or strengthened. Implementation of thicker fuel rod cladding was evaluated for the NPP Krško that uses 16 × 16 fuel design. Cladding thickness of the Westinghous