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Fuel assembly having water passageway in channel well

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6477205
Fuel assembly having square cross-section and a plurality of tube elements arranged in a square reactor lattice, at least one of said tube elements being water tubes and a predominant number being fuel rods. Each fuel channel wall has a hollow projection lying in a vertical mid-plane. The number of tube elements between two projections lying in the same mid-plane is smaller than nine and greater than two. A plurality of rows of nine tube elements are arranged in parallel with each of the mid-planes.
Assignee:
AB Asea-Atom (Sweden)
Patent Number(s):
US 4526746
OSTI ID:
6477205
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English