Fuel assemblies for nuclear reactors

Details Fuel assemblies for nuclear reactors Fuel assemblies for nuclear reactors

1981-03-11

1987-04-07

Kyle, Deborah L.

Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements

With control of reactor

By movement of control element or by release of neutron...

376353, 376446, G21C 720

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active

046559906

ABSTRACT:
Improvements to guide tubes for the fuel assemblies of light water nuclear reactors, said assemblies being immersed in operation in the cooling water of the core of such a reactor, the guide tubes being of the type made from zircaloy and fixed at their two ends respectively to an upper end part and a lower end part made from stainless steel or Irconel and which incorporate devices for braking the fall of the control rods which they house during the rapid shutdown of the reactor, wherein the said braking devices are constituted by means for restricting the diameter of the guide tubes comprising for each guide tube a zircaloy inner sleeve spot welded to the said guide tube and whose internal diameter permits the passage, with a calibrated clearance, of the corresponding control rod, the sleeve being distributed over the lower portion of each guide tube and associated with orifices made in the actual guide tubes to produce the progressive hydraulic absorption of the end of the fall of the control rods.
The invention also relates to a process for the disassembly of the guide tubes of a fuel assembly.

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