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Triangular lattice for LWR square fuel assemblies.

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A nuclear fuel assembly for boiling water reactors, the assembly having a plurality of elongated parallel fuel rods supported between a lower tie plate positioned toward the bottom of the assembly and an upper tie plate positioned toward the top of the assembly, an outer channel surrounding the plur

A nuclear fuel assembly for boiling water reactors, the assembly having a plurality of elongated parallel fuel rods supported between a lower tie plate positioned toward the bottom of the assembly and an upper tie plate positioned toward the top of the assembly, an outer channel surrounding the plurality of fuel rods and having a substantially square cross-sectional area for conducting coolant/moderator about the fuel rods from the bottom of the assembly toward the toe of assembly, at least one spacer for positioning and retaining the fuel rods in a predetermined configuration, and the fuel rods being arranged with a predetermined pitch in an array of 9×11 where the centers of the fuel rods are located at the vertices of isosceles triangles, wherein each of the isosceles triangles has a base and a height and the ratio of the height to the base is about 0.8.