Spacer grid for a fuel unit in a nuclear reactor cooled by light water
US7469030B2 · kind B2 · utility
2Cited by
19References
8Claims
0Family size
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 25, 2003 |
| Grant date | Dec 23, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 25, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02E30/30
- WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A spacer grid for a fuel assembly in a light-water-cooled nuclear reactor, for providing the transverse retention of a bundle of fuel rods in mutually parallel arrangements, having an array of cells juxtaposed and placed in a regular lattice, each bounded and separated from neighboring cells by at least one peripheral wall which is open at two opposed ends, along the direction of an axis of the cell, so as to receive a fuel rod of cylindrical general shape passing along the cell along its axis parallel to the peripheral wall.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.