Fuel assembly, components thereof and method of manufacture
US5297177A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 21, 1992 |
| Grant date | Mar 22, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 21, 2012 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S376/90
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A fuel assembly, where crystallographic orientations of a channel box are brought into a random distribution; and cladding tubes, spacers and a channel box are made from highly corrosion-resistant, Fe--Ni, zirconium-based alloy, hardened in the (.alpha.+.beta.) phase or .beta.-phase temperature region, has an average discharge burnup level of 50 to 550 GWd/t.
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