Method and apparatus for close packing of nuclear fuel assemblies

Patent · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:868712

Newman, Darrell F ^[1]

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1. Richland, WA

The apparatus of the present invention is a plate of neutron absorbing material. The plate may have a releasable locking feature permitting the plate to be secured within a nuclear fuel assembly between nuclear fuel rods during storage or transportation then removed for further use or destruction. The method of the present invention has the step of placing a plate of neutron absorbing material between nuclear fuel rods within a nuclear fuel assembly, preferably between the two outermost columns of nuclear fuel rods. Additionally, the plate may be releasably locked in place.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA)
• Patent Number(s): US 5198183
• OSTI ID: 868712
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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rods
storage
transportation
removed
destruction
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placing
preferably
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fuel rods
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nuclear fuel
fuel assembly
fuel rod
neutron absorbing
sorbing material
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