Patent · US Expired

Fuel assembly for a nuclear reactor

US4486384A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Peter Rau · Leutenbach, DE
Manfred Schatz · Hersbruck, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 3, 1981
Grant date	Dec 4, 1984
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 3, 2001

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E30/30
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Fuel assembly for a nuclear reactor having a bundle of fuel rods of circular cross section extending parallel to one another and disposed at positions forming a raster, including a guide tube for a control rod extending parallel to the fuel rods in the bundle and occupying the positions for and having a cross section covering the cross section of a plurality of mutually adjacent fuel rods in the raster the cross section of the guide tube being defined by circular arcs conforming with those of the circular cross section of the adjacent fuel rods covered thereby and being connected by concave arcuate sections.

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