Southern Nuclear’s BWR Fuel Engineering team (SNC) and Constellation’s Nuclear Fuels Department partnered with Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) to deploy GNF’s latest fuel cycle cost saving innovation feature called GREAT. The GREAT feature is a new design option that improves gadolinia and uranium enrichment loading in a GNF3 fuel bundle. Application of the GREAT feature enables a reduction in fuel cycle costs through an overall enrichment reduction while maintaining a consistent core axial power shape as compared to prior core designs without GREAT. The GREAT design feature is an evolutionary improvement that reduces fuel costs for BWR units with fuel supplied by GNF. SNC and Constellation have implemented GREAT with fuel cycles in 2022.