Device for supporting a fuel pin cluster within a nuclear reactor fuel assembly wrapper. [LMFBR]
Patent
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OSTI ID:7119418
A supporting member for an array of parallel rails each carrying one row of slidably mounted pins of a fuel cluster is placed coaxially at the lower end of a vertical fuel assembly wrapper. Each parallel rail is provided at each end with a downward extension and terminal lug which engages in a lateral groove formed in the periphery of the supporting member in order to lock and maintain the rails and the fuel pins in uniformly spaced relation within the fuel assembly wrapper. 10 claims, 8 figures.
- Assignee:
- CEA
- Patent Number(s):
- US 3996101
- OSTI ID:
- 7119418
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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