Borate glass containing boron carbide burnable poison coating
US5243633A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 20, 1991 |
| Grant date | Sep 7, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 20, 2011 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02E30/30
- WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A fuel element (10) for a nuclear reactor having a zirconium-tin alloy cladding tube (20), with a thin coating (30) of a burnable poison consisting of an enriched boron particles sealed in a boron-containing glass or glass compound deposited from a liquid sol-gel.
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