Evaluation of the reutilization of used nuclear fuel in a PWR core without reprocessing

This reutilization option is a potential candidate technique to make better use of the nuclear resources. Standard two step method is used to calculate node i.e. fuel assembly average burnup and then pin by pin h values are reconstructed to ascertain the residual reactivity in the used fuel pins. Fuel pins with h >1:0 are used to reconstruct to-be-reused fuel assemblies.