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Table 3
Ninety-seven fuel assemblies core main characteristics.
| General characteristics | Number of fuel assemblies | 97 |
| Fissile height | 2.15 m | |
| Equivalent diameter | 2.39 m | |
| Height/Diameter ratio | 0.9 | |
| Thermal power | 550 MWa | |
| Average linear power | 100 W/cm | |
| Internal/External vessel diameter | 3.4/3.7 m | |
| Reflector | Iron | |
| Two-batch refuelling | Enrichment | 4.95% |
| Gadolinium content | 32 pins/9%w | |
| Radial assembly form factor | 1.16 | |
| 3D core form factor | 2.4 | |
| Maximum linear power | < 278 W/cm | |
| Cycle length | 38 months | |
| Burn-up | 40 GWd/tUO2 | |
| ▵LCOE (compared to single batch reference core) | – 2 €/MWh | |
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The thermal power is, in this study, considered to be 550 MWth, including 20 MWth of margin (conservative on the cycle length and DNBR), compared to the reference 530 MWth [2].
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