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Fuel element for a reactor

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7277341

The outer surface of a cladding tube of a nuclear fuel element is -- for the purpose of improving the heat exchange between the cladding tube and a surrounding coolant -- provided with a plurality of parallel fin rows extending normal to the cladding tube axis. Each row is constituted by a plurality of spaced, individual fins; the fins of any one row are offset with respect to the fins of an immediately adjacent row.

Assignee:
Gesellschaft fuer Kernforschung m.b.H.
Patent Number(s):
US 3930941
OSTI ID:
7277341
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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