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Plus the presurized helium inside and what ever attachments there are on the tube to allow it to fit into one of the four assemblies. Or are you saying that the core of a reactor consists of more than four assemblies, each containing ~25 tubes filled with pellets. I really don't know how schematic the diagrams are.

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by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Mar 17th, 2011 at 04:43:07 PM EST
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The reactor core contains hundreds of assemblies, each of them containing about a hundred tubes, arranged in four bundles. Assemblies can be individually moved. About 1/5 of the fuel is replaced each year.

So, in what may be my last act of "advising", I'll advise you to cut the jargon. -- My old PhD advisor, to me, 26/2/11
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Mar 17th, 2011 at 04:50:38 PM EST
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