Patent · US Expired

Fuel element of a pressurized-water-nuclear reactor and fuel rod

US5209898A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Heinz-Peter Holley · Forchheim, DE
Rolf Holzer · Erlangen, DE
Guenther Lill · Herzogenaurach, DE
Alfred Neufert · Langensendelbach, DE
Wolfgang Schricker · Arnstorf, DE
Peter Suchy · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 12, 1989
Grant date	May 11, 1993
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 12, 2009

Classification

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

Abstract

A fuel assembly of a pressurized water nuclear reactor includes at least two fuel rods, respectively, having a cladding tube of given outer and inner diameters and pellets of given outer diameter received in the cladding tube, the fuel rods being disposed in the fuel assembly at a given mutual spacing of center points thereof, a ratio of the given mutual spacing of the center points of the fuel rods to the outer diameter of the cladding tube being in a range between 1.35 and 1.37.

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