Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Clifford W Henry

Octavio J Machado

William M Flynn

Ray L Congleton

A spent fuel rack for storing fresh fuel assemblies, or spent fuel assemblies removed from a nuclear reactor, which includes a base plate having multiple cells of modular construction welded at their bottom ends to the plate. The cells are formed of L-shaped sections having walls which support neutron absorbing material, and the walls of one cell are common to the adjacent cells. The base plate includes openings primarily for receiving the bottom nozzle of a fuel assembly, but they further serve as access openings for apparatus used for leveling the base plate. There is also means for receiving and locking the engaging mechanism of lifting apparatus which means is wholly within the periphery of the base plate.

Spent fuel storage rack

A spent fuel rack for storing fresh fuel assemblies, or spent fuel assemblies removed from a nuclear reactor, which includes a base plate having multiple cells of modular construction welded at their bottom ends to the plate. The cells are formed of L-shaped sections having walls which support neutron absorbing material, and the walls of one cell are common to the adjacent cells. The base plate includes openings primarily for receiving the bottom nozzle of a fuel assembly, but they further serve as access openings for apparatus used for leveling the base plate and for lifting and transferring the base plate with or without cells thereon, to a different area.

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Metairie, LA, United States of America

Clifford W Henry