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3. Internal equipment
This refers to the equipment inside the vessel, with the exception of the nuclear fuel.
Internal equipment performs the following functions
support and lateral holding of fuel assemblies ;
guidance of control clusters and instrumentation ;
coolant distribution to fuel assemblies and structures to be cooled.
3.1 Description
The internal equipment of PWRs comprises two sub-assemblies that can be extracted from the vessel (figure 6 ):
lower internal equipment ;...
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Regulations
ESPN (Équipements sous Pression Nucléaires) decree of December 12, 2005 on the application in France of pressure vessels to primary equipment.
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