Claims
- 1. A fuel assembly, comprising:
fuel rods containing pellets having a fissile material with a level of enrichment above a maximum value permitted for safe processing of an unpoisoned enriched fissile material, and absorber material added to lower a reactivity of said pellets below a reactivity of an unpoisoned pellet made of the unpoisoned fissile material enriched to a maximum value.
- 2. The fuel assembly according to claim 1, wherein said pellets in all of said fuel rods contain the fissile material.
- 3. The fuel assembly according to claim 1, wherein all of said enriched pellets in all of said fuel rods contain the fissile material.
- 4. The fuel assembly according to claim 1, wherein all of said fuel rods in the fuel assembly contain only pellets with the fissile material.
- 5. The fuel assembly according to claim 1, wherein all of said fuel rods in the fuel assembly contain only pellets with the fissile material and pellets made of non-enriched material.
Priority Claims (1)
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196 36 563.5 |
Sep 1996 |
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This is a division of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/265,156, filed Mar. 9, 1999, which was a continuation of copending International Application No. PCT/EP97/04652, filed Aug. 26, 1997, which designated the United States.
Divisions (1)
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09265156 |
Mar 1999 |
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09863684 |
May 2001 |
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Continuations (1)
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PCT/EP97/04652 |
Aug 1997 |
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09265156 |
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