Nuclear fuel rod inspection structure
CA 1081374 A · Owner: The Babcock & Wilcox Company · Inventors: Jabsen, Felix S.
Overview
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A typical embodiment of the invention provides a fitting for stabilizing the burnable poison rods and the like within a nuclear reactor fuel element. An illustrative orifice rod assembly fitting is assembled inexpensively from stamped metal strips which expose the ends of the fuel rods within the fuel element for inspection and simplify rearrangement of partially used fuel elements within a reactor core.
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- Granted July 8, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 8, 1997.
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