Lower tie plate debris catcher for a nuclear reactor

Details Lower tie plate debris catcher for a nuclear reactor Lower tie plate debris catcher for a nuclear reactor

1994-04-15

1995-12-05

Walsh, Donald P.

Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements

Fission reactor material treatment

Impurity removal

376352, 376310, 376443, 376442, G21C 1942

Patent

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054736501

ABSTRACT:
A unitary one-piece lower tie plate grid has a lower portion and an upper portion for supporting the fuel rods. The lower tie plate grid includes cylindrical boss portions extending upwardly from the lower grid portion and arranged in square matrices for receiving the lower end plugs of the fuel rods. Web portions extending upwardly from the lower tie plate portion interconnect the boss portions along the sides of the matrices. The lower grid portion includes a plurality of openings which open into the flow spaces defined by the convex portions of the bosses and the webs within each square matrix of the upper portion of the tie plate. Coolant flows through the openings into the flow spaces for further flow upwardly about the fuel rods. The openings are radiussed adjacent their lower ends and have tapered divergent walls opening into the flow spaces. In another form, the openings have a step intermediate the upper and lower surfaces of the lower grid portion to define a minimum cross-sectional flow area.

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