General Electric Company

John F Price

Bruce Matzner

Michael V Curulla

Victor M Horn

Frank D Qurnell

Kenneth Wood Brayman

In a fuel assembly for a nuclear reactor a fuel element spacer formed of an array of laterally positioned cojoined tubular ferrules each providing a passage for one of the fuel elements, the elements being laterally supported in the ferrules between slender spring members and laterally oriented rigid stops.

Method of mounting a continuous loop spring on a nuclear fuel spacer

A spacer for use in a fuel assembly of a nuclear reactor having thin, full-height divider members, slender spring members and laterally oriented rigid stops and wherein the total amount of spacer material, the amount of high neutron cross section material, the projected area of the spacer structure and changes in cross section area of the spacer structure are minimized whereby neutron absorption by the spacer and coolant flow resistance through the spacer are minimized.

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Wilmington, NC, United States of America

John F Price