Fuel assembly and handling

AGR (Advanced Gas cooled Reactor). General Presentation of the British Nuclear Fleet

Figure 1 - Plan of the reactor island of an AGR 2 x 600 MWe plant: top view

Figure 2 - Overview of an AGR reactor

Figure 3 - Graphite brick (23 cm diameter, 100 cm high)

Figure 4 - Illustrations of the typical graphite network pattern

Figure 5 - Example of a fuel and reflector channel network

Figure 6 - Wigner energy deposited in graphite as a function of irradiation for different temperatures

Figure 7 - Heart map

Figure 8 - Fuel rod and fuel cartridge (© Westinghouse)

Figure 9 - Radial presentation of fuel cartridge

Figure 10 - Axial presentation of fuel cartridge

Figure 11 - Fuel assembly

Figure 12 - Fuel assembly and reactor

Figure 13 - AGR site reactor hall: loading/unloading machine

Figure 14 - Fuel element loading/unloading kinematics

Figure 15 - Hinkley Point core hydraulic diagram

Figure 16 - Distribution of exchanger/boiler systems around the core

Figure 17 - Main cooling system

Figure 18 - Types of AGR housing architecture