Spacer support for water-cooled nuclear reactor fuel elements

Details Spacer support for water-cooled nuclear reactor fuel elements Spacer support for water-cooled nuclear reactor fuel elements

1977-07-15

1979-05-01

Nelson, Peter A.

176 78, G21C 302

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041522052

ABSTRACT:
Nuclear reactor fuel element having a spacer including a grid formed of edgewise disposed sheetmetal webs of material having minimal neutron absorption, and resilient contact elements of different material applied to the grid and extending in axial direction of the mesh of the grid, the mesh of the grid being defined by mesh walls formed with rectangular openings extending in longitudinal direction of the fuel element, the resilient contact elements comprising respective resilient strips self-lockingly snapped into the openings and including wave-shaped parts thereof extending from one to the other side of the mesh walls and respective parts that are not wave-shaped connected to opposite ends of the wave-shaped part thereof and contacting respective webs of the grid.

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