Data processing: structural design – modeling – simulation – and em – Modeling by mathematical expression
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-13
2008-12-30
Frejd, Russell (Department: 2128)
Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and em
Modeling by mathematical expression
C703S006000, C376S241000, C376S267000, C376S305000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07472045
ABSTRACT:
A method has been developed to select fuel rod enrichments for a fuel bundle of a nuclear reactor, the method including: creating an ordered list of fuel rod types in an initial fuel bundle design; perturbing at least a subset of the fuel rod types in the initial fuel bundle design to generate a plurality of perturbed fuel bundle designs; selecting perturbed fuel bundle designs having fuel rods with allowable fuel enrichment types and an allowable average enrichment for the perturbed bundle; determining a difference between each of the selected perturbed fuel bundle design and the initial fuel bundle design, and creating a group of the perturbed fuel bundle design having a difference less than a predetermined threshold difference value.
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Jackson Roland Otto
Russell, II William Earl
Frejd Russell
Global Nuclear Fuel—Americas, LLC
Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
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