Fuel assembly designs and their improvements as well as fuel behaviour are comprehensively reported in international conference series and their proceedings. The yearly recurring TopFuel/Water Reactor Fuel Performance meetings are organised by national and international nuclear societies and provide overviews of current issues and developments as well as detailed research papers. Some proceedings can be downloaded from the internet, e. g., the 2006 issue from www. euronuclear. org.

The conference series ‘Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry’ is organised approximately every other year and covers all aspects of zirconium alloy applications and their behaviour in the reactor core. The proceedings are available through the ASTM bookstore www. astm. org/Standard/books_journals.

Reactor physics affecting fuel assembly design, associated tools and methods are covered by the biennial conferences on ‘Physics of Reactors’ (Physor). The proceedings of some recent meetings are available through the ANS bookstore (www. new. ans. org/store).

Finally, a book that is both informative and entertaining is Canada Enters the Nuclear Age. It contains many details of CANDU assembly and fuel designs for which there was no room in this chapter (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, 1997; ISBN 0-7735-1601-8).