Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kouji Kiraiwa

Koichi Sakurada

Yoshihira Ando

Yoshiro Kudo

Disclosed is a fuel assembly comprises a plurality of cylindrical fuel rods with a plurality of fuel pellets sealed therein, a plurality of small units each having a predetermined number of the fuel rods bundled spaced with a fixed intercentral distance and being arranged in such a manner that the intercentral distance between the component fuel rods falling on the mutually juxtaposed sides of the adjacent small units is larger than the intercentral distance between the adjacent fuel rods in the small units, and at least one water rod near the center of a cluster of the plurality of the small units.

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Zushi, Japan

Kouji Kiraiwa