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Nuclear fuel assembly

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7176989
A nuclear fuel assembly comprises a cluster of elongated fuel, retained parallel and at the nodal points of a square network by a bottom supporting plate and by spacing grids. The supporting plate is connected to a top end plate via tie-rods which replace fuel pins at certain of the nodal points of the network. The diameter of the tie-rods is equal to that of the pins and both are slidably received in the grids.
Assignee:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
Patent Number(s):
US 3954560
OSTI ID:
7176989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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