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Interlocking egg-crate type grid assembly

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5593175
Disclosed is an interlocking egg-crate hexagonal grid for supporting a nuclear fuel pin in a hexagonal array. The grid is formed from strips bent at an angle of about 120/sup 0/ at each vertex. Over some faces of each hexagonal cell the strips are coplanar but are arranged, by stacking interlocking, to avoid any double thickness of metal in that plane. Springs and dimples are formed in the faces of each cell to hold the fuel pin substantially centered.
Research Organization:
General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC12-76SN00052
Assignee:
Dept. of Energy
Patent Number(s):
None
Application Number:
ON: DE86013789
OSTI ID:
5593175
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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