Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Fuel component structure – Plural fuel segments or elements
Patent
1990-05-10
1993-03-30
Walsh, Donald P.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Fuel component structure
Plural fuel segments or elements
376428, 376419, 376434, G21C 332
Patent
active
051981866
ABSTRACT:
A fuel assembly of the type having a plurality of a fuel material characterized in that a water rod disposed in a channel has a large diameter so that it has a space into which a plurality of fuel rods could be loaded and liquid water boil flows through the water rod and which has a section filled with a fuel material comprising a natural uranium section defined at least one of the upper and lower ends of each fuel rod and an enriched uranium section comprising the uppermost, intermediate and lowermost sections each having a different degree of average enrichment across a cross section of the fuel assembly and the upper and lowermost sections have the degree of enrichment across a section of the fuel assembly is lower than that of the intermediate section, and the enriched uranium section has two sections each of which has a different content of a burnable poison per unit length in the axial direction and the content of the burnable poison per unit of length in the axial direction in the uppermost section is less than that in one or more sections outside of the enriched uranium section.
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Haikawa Katsumasa
Nishimura Akira
Ogiya Shunsuke
Yamamoto Toru
Chelliah Meena
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Walsh Donald P.
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