Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Magnetically shaping
Patent
1981-05-29
1984-04-10
Behrend, Harvey E.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Magnetically shaping
294262, 294263, 29723, 376272, 376261, B23P 1900
Patent
active
044412428
ABSTRACT:
The spent fuel consolidation system provides method and apparatus for remotely vertically and horizontally compacting an array of spent fuel rods while the fuel rods remain submerged in a coolant. The invention comprises a row ordering section for rearranging the configuration of the fuel rods, horizontal consolidation section for horizontally compacting several rows of fuel rods, and a vertical consolidation section for vertically compacting several rows of horizontally compacted fuel rods. The system is capable of compacting the fuel rods from a given fuel assembly to about one half of the volume originally occupied by such fuel rods in the fuel assembly thereby providing greater storage capacity for a given volume of spent fuel storage.
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Hicken Michael G.
Kirschensteiner Fred
Taleff Alexander
True Duane A.
Behrend Harvey E.
DePaul L. A.
Wasil Daniel
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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