Control rod system useable for fuel handling in a gas-cooled nuclear reactor

Patent · 29 November 1976

OSTI ID:862715

Spurrier, Francis R ^[1]

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1. Whitehall, PA

A control rod and its associated drive are used to elevate a complete stack of fuel blocks to a position above the core of a gas-cooled nuclear reactor. A fuel-handling machine grasps the control rod and the drive is unlatched from the rod. The stack and rod are transferred out of the reactor, or to a new location in the reactor, by the fuel-handling machine.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 3994775
• Application Number: 05/661,207
• OSTI ID: 862715
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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