General Electric Company

Ge-hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC

Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas, LLC

John Dean Fuller

William Earl Russell, Ii

David Joseph Kropaczek

Christian Carlos Oyarzun

Steven Barry Sutton

Carey Reid Merritt

Margaret Estelle Harding

David Grey Smith

Carlton Wayne Clark

Robert Bryant James

Lukas Trosman

Christopher J Monetta

William Earl Ii Russell

Carey Reid Merrit

A fuel bundle for a nuclear reactor core is provided. The fuel bundle may include a plurality of rods comprised of nuclear fuel rods and/or isotope production rods. Each rod includes a plurality of interconnected rod segments, wherein at least two of the rod segments of at least one rod have different outside diameters. The fuel bundle may additionally include a plurality of rod spacer grids securely retained between axially adjacent, interconnected rod segments. The rod spacer grids interconnected between axially adjacent rod segments form an array of substantially equally spaced rods. The fuel bundle may further include an elongate tubular channel in which the arrayed rods are housed.

Fail-free fuel bundle assembly

The apparatus for creating and editing a nuclear reactor core template includes a graphical user interface and a processor controlling the graphical user interface to allow a user to selectively populate a loading map with fuel bundles residing in at least one fuel pool.

Method and apparatus for moving nuclear fuel

Method and apparatus for facilitating recovery of nuclear fuel from a fuel pool

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Wilmington, NC, United States of America

John Dean Fuller