Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Fuel component structure – Plural fuel segments or elements
Patent
1985-03-15
1987-12-22
Terapane, John F.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Fuel component structure
Plural fuel segments or elements
376462, G21C 334
Patent
active
047145854
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is an interlocking egg-crate hexagonal grid for supporting a nuclear fuel pin in a hexagonal array. The grid is formed from strips bent at an angle of about 120.degree. at each vertex. Over some faces of each hexagonal cell the strips are coplanar but are arranged, by stacking and interlocking, to avoid any double thickness of metal in that plane. Springs and dimples are formed in the faces of each cell to hold the fuel pin substantially centered.
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Constant Richard E.
Hightower Judson R.
Maples John S.
Randolph William W.
Terapane John F.
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