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Control rod absorber section fabrication by square tube configuration and dual laser welding process

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6740794
This patent describes a process for the assembly of a planar section of a cruciform shaped control rod from tubes. It comprises: providing tubes, the tubes having cylindrical interior volumes for the containment of neutron absorbing poisons and having square external sections for being joined by welding in side-by-side relation; filling the cylindrical interior volumes with neutron absorbing poisons; plugging the tubes to seal the neutron absorbing poisons within the tubes: providing a jig for maintaining the tubes in side-by-side relation to form a planar section of the control rod, the jig having a leading end for holding the ends of the tubes in side-by-side relation and having a trailing end for holding the tubes in side-by-side relation.
Assignee:
General Electric Co., San Jose, CA (USA)
Patent Number(s):
A; US 4925620
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-250631A
OSTI ID:
6740794
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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