Method and apparatus for facilitating recovery of nuclear fuel from a fuel pool

US7636652B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas, LLC · US

Inventors

• David Joseph Kropaczek · Wilmington, US
• Steven Barry Sutton · Wilmington, US
• Christian Carlos Oyarzun · Wilmington, US
• Carey Merritt · Wilmington, US
• John D. Fuller · Wilmington, US
• William Earl Russell, II · Tunnel Hill, US
• Margaret Estelle Harding · Wilmington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 2003
• Grant date: Dec 22, 2009
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E30/30
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The apparatus for creating and editing a nuclear reactor core template includes a graphical user interface and a processor controlling the graphical user interface to allow a user to selectively populate a loading map with fuel bundles residing in at least one fuel pool.