Device for holding and supplying with liquid metal an assembly for a nuclear reactor core

Patent · Tue Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6674894

Arnaud, G; Chiarelli, G

The fuel assembly is supported by means of a cylindrical supporting member which is introduced into a shore of the crossmember. The foot of the fuel assembly is introduced into the upper part of the cross-member. Orifices, coinciding with those made with the shore permit the introduction of the liquid metal into the supporting member and from there into the actual assembly. The supporting member is closed at its lower end. Application to the construction of the core of a fast neutron nuclear cooled with liquid sodium.

• Assignee: Commissariat A L Energie Atomique (France)
• Patent Number(s): US 4352778
• OSTI ID: 6674894
• Resource Relation: Patent Priority Date: Priority date 14 Dec 1978, France; Other Information: PAT-APPL-101075
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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