Patent · US Expired

Method for repairing a nuclear reactor fuel assembly and a replacement rod for performing the method

US4814138A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Peter Fick · Regensburg, DE
Klaus Knecht · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 1, 1987
Grant date	Mar 21, 1989
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 1, 2007

Classification

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

Abstract

In a nuclear reactor fuel assembly having a fuel rod filled with nuclear fuel retained in a gap formed in a lattice-like spacer by a spring disposed in the gap, the fuel assembly is repaired by replacing the fuel rod with a replacement rod and the replacement rod is retained in the gap of the spacer with a retaining spring.

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