Thin walled channel
Patent
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OSTI ID:7131619
A fuel assembly is described comprising fuel rods positioned in a spaced array by upper and lower tie-plates, an open ended flow channel surrounding the array for conducting coolant upward about the fuel rods, the open ended channel having a polygon shaped cross section with flat side sections connected between the corner sections; means separate from the channel connecting the upper and lower tie-plates together and maintaining the fuel rods in spaced array independent of the flow channel, improvement in the flow channel comprising: four corners having a first thickness; four sides having a second and reduced thickness from the corner thickness, the sides welded to the corner sections.
- Assignee:
- General Electric Co., San Jose, CA
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4749544
- OSTI ID:
- 7131619
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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