Fuel assembly, components thereof and method of manufacture

Details Fuel assembly, components thereof and method of manufacture Fuel assembly, components thereof and method of manufacture

1992-09-21

1994-03-22

Walsh, Donald P.

Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements

Grids

376457, 376438, G21C 334

Patent

active

052971775

ABSTRACT:
A fuel assembly, where crystallographic orientations of a channel box are brought into a random distribution; and cladding tubes, spacers and a channel box are made from highly corrosion-resistant, Fe--Ni, zirconium-based alloy, hardened in the (.alpha.+.beta.) phase or .beta.-phase temperature region, has an average discharge burnup level of 50 to 550 GWd/t.

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