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Stainless steel as fuel element canning material in water cooled reactors

Spalaris, 1965

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1076127527816893738
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Spalaris C
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INSTITUTT FOR ATOMENERGI

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The first full scale application of stainless steel clad fuel element de sign in a commercial power reactor was the Yankee power reactor station"^. The choice for this core was Type-> 48 SS. The NS Savannah (first and second cores), Indian Point, Big Rock Point, Elk River …
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