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According to IRSN (quoting IAEA), there are 1500 fuel assemblies in the n°4 pool

"People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them." - Jean Monnet

by Melanchthon on Thu Mar 17th, 2011 at 05:48:50 AM EST
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Remember (h/t Starvid:) the number of zirconium fuel canisters in each fuel assembly is

About 100

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 06:08:47 AM EST
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There were fewer fuel rods in the olden days, 64 was usual IIRC. This fuel element on the picture is the modern Svea 96, which I supposed went into production as recently as 15 years ago.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Thu Mar 17th, 2011 at 09:49:32 AM EST
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