Interlocking egg-crate type grid assembly
Abstract
Disclosed is an interlocking egg-crate hexagonal grid for supporting a nuclear fuel pin in a hexagonal array. The grid is formed from strips bent at an angle of about 120/sup 0/ at each vertex. Over some faces of each hexagonal cell the strips are coplanar but are arranged, by stacking interlocking, to avoid any double thickness of metal in that plane. Springs and dimples are formed in the faces of each cell to hold the fuel pin substantially centered.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5593175
- Application Number:
- ON: DE86013789
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy TIC; ERA-11-004263; EDB-86-135281
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC12-76SN00052
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; DESIGN; GRIDS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; FUEL PINS; ROD BUNDLES; ELECTRODES; FUEL ELEMENTS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; 220300* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Fuel Elements
Citation Formats
Kast, S.J. Interlocking egg-crate type grid assembly. United States: N. p., 1985.
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Kast, S.J. Interlocking egg-crate type grid assembly. United States.
Kast, S.J. Fri .
"Interlocking egg-crate type grid assembly". United States.
@article{osti_5593175,
title = {Interlocking egg-crate type grid assembly},
author = {Kast, S.J.},
abstractNote = {Disclosed is an interlocking egg-crate hexagonal grid for supporting a nuclear fuel pin in a hexagonal array. The grid is formed from strips bent at an angle of about 120/sup 0/ at each vertex. Over some faces of each hexagonal cell the strips are coplanar but are arranged, by stacking interlocking, to avoid any double thickness of metal in that plane. Springs and dimples are formed in the faces of each cell to hold the fuel pin substantially centered.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1985},
month = {3}
}
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