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Main engineering data of the core

1 January 2000


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Characteristic Value
Full inventory of nitride uranium-plutonium fuel, kg 86350
Full inventory of plutonium and its daughter elements, kg 12070
Core diameter, mm 5167
Average heating rate, MW/m3 240
Refuelling interval, effective days 500
Number of FAs substituted in one refuelling outage 200
Maximum fuel burnup, % h.a. 12.2
Total sodium flowrate through the core, t/s 19.1
Pressure drop along the core length, MPa 0.5

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