Apparatus of assembling fuel rod bundle

Details Apparatus of assembling fuel rod bundle Apparatus of assembling fuel rod bundle

1977-04-28

1979-11-27

DiPalma, Victor A.

Metal working

Means to assemble or disassemble

Nuclear device

29705, 29720, 294 86A, B23P 1900

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active

041753186

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for assembling a fuel rod bundle having a number or elongated fuel rods arranged in parallel with each other and fixed by means of a plurality of spacers and lower and upper tie plates comprises a fuel rod supplying apparatus for feeding successive fuel rods in a longitudinal direction of the rods, said fuel rod supplying apparatus including means for carrying the rods in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction to any one of a plurality of positions; a bundling apparatus including means for fixing or holding the spacers and the lower tie plate and means for rotating said fixing means by given angles; and a measuring apparatus including a circular pitch measuring mechanism and a layer space or pitch measuring mechanism for measuring circular and layer pitches of the assembled fuel rods in the bundling apparatus.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3855684 (1974-12-01), Kendall
patent: 3937332 (1976-02-01), Flessner et al.

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