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PWR FUEL ELEMENT MANUFACTURE. TECHNIQUES EVOLVED BY WESTINGHOUSE

Journal Article · · Nuclear Eng.
OSTI ID:4112570
Approximately 3.500.000 uranium dioxide ceramic pellets were used in fabricating the 23.142 fuel rods for the Yankee reactor core. The fuel reds are braze-bonded together with a series of spacer ferrules to form 684 subassemblies. which are made up in groups of nine into the 76 assemblies weighing 910 lb each, thus forming the core structure. A fuel rod consists of a coluumn of cylindrical uranium dioxide pellets contained within a 93-in. long stainless-steel tube. interrupted at 15-in. intervals by stainless-steel disks joined to the inside of the tube. (auth)
Research Organization:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburg
NSA Number:
NSA-15-003063
OSTI ID:
4112570
Journal Information:
Nuclear Eng., Journal Name: Nuclear Eng. Vol. Vol: 5
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
English

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