Korea Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.

Kyong-Bo Eom

Jin-Seok Lee

Jin-Sun Kim

Nam-Gyu Park

Kyu-Tae Kim

Jung-Min Suh

Seong-Ki Lee

Joon-Kyoo Park

Dong-Geun Ha

Kyoung-Joo Kim

Kyeong-Lak Jeon

Il-Kyu Kim

Kang-Hoon Kim

Sung-Kew Park

Disclosed is a spacer grid assembly with mixing vanes supporting fuel rods of nuclear fuel assemblies and mixing coolant that flows around the fuel rods, and more particularly, a spacer grid equipped with mixing vanes that mix coolant flowing around fuel rods. The spacer grid with hydraulically balanced mixing vane patterns, in the spacer grid equipped with a strip dividing a plurality of unit grid cells and a plurality of springs, protruded in uniform directions of vertical and horizontal directions on a grid surface of the strip and supporting nuclear fuel rods, which includes: a plurality of mixing vanes protruded to the downstream of coolant on an upper end of the inner grid surface, wherein positions and directions of the mixing vanes are formed in regular patterns on the spacer grid. Thus, it can minimize coolant flow induced vibration of the spacer grid by balancing hydraulic load generated by the mixing vanes, around the center of the spacer grids.

Nuclear fuel grid assembly with hydraulically balanced mixing vane pattern

Disclosed are a bottom spacer grid with a louver on a spring that can filter debris flowed through a channel of a lower end fitting with coolant on the lower end fitting of a nuclear fuel assembly, and can prevent uplift of fuel rods due to coolant, simultaneously. The bottom spacer grid for debris filtering with the louver for preventing uplift of the fuel rods, in the spacer grid equipped with a strip dividing a plurality of unit grid cells and a plurality of springs, protruded in uniform directions of each of vertical and horizontal directions on a grid surface of the strip, having uniform elasticity and supporting a lower end cap of a nuclear fuel rod, which includes: a spring having a plane portion with a predetermined size to contact to an outer circumference of the bottom end cap of the nuclear fuel rod; a louver protruded downward the spacer grid at a predetermined angle from the plane portion of the spring; and a debris filtering member bent and protruded to the bottom of the grid surface of the spacer grid.

Debris filtering bottom spacer grid with louvers for preventing uplift of fuel rods

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