Nuclear fuel assembly bottom nozzle attachment system allowing reconstitution
Patent
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OSTI ID:7226590
A nuclear reactor fuel assembly having a bottom nozzle to guide thimble attachment system, is described comprising: (a) a bottom nozzle with an adaptor plate having a bore; (b) a guide thimble with a bottom end plug having a threaded axial passageway, the passageway aligned with the bore; and (c) a top-unthreadable two-headed bolt with a longitudinal flow hole, a hank having a threaded section, a first head sized to block passage through the bore, and a second head sized to allow passage through the bore and the passageway, the two-headed bolt disposed in the bore and threadably disposed in the passageway with the first head proximate the adaptor plate and the second head proximate the end plug.
- Assignee:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4738820
- OSTI ID:
- 7226590
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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