Baffle-former arrangement for nuclear reactor vessel internals
CA 1075381 A · Owner: Westinghouse Electric Corporation · Inventors: Machado, Octavio J.; Berringer, Robert T.
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A baffle-former arrangement for the reactor vessel internals of a nuclear reactor. The arrangement includes positioning of formers at the same elevations as the fuel assembly grids, and positioning flow holes in the baffle plates directly beneath selected former/grid elevations. me arrangement reduces detrimental cross flows maintains, proper core barrel and baffle temperatures and alleviates, the potential of overpressurization within the baffle-former assembly under assumed major accident conditions.
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- Granted April 8, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 8, 1997.
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