General Electric Company

Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas, LLC

Mark Andrew Dubecky

Gerald A Potts

Daniel Reese Lutz

David W White

Yang-Pi Lin

Atul Arun Karve

John Frederick Schardt

Angelo Chopelas

James Brian Smith

John R Burr

Sheikh Tahir Mahmood

An apparatus generating a graphical image of a core of a boiling water reactor (BWR) using at least one data set of channel deformation data including: a computer system including a display device for presenting the graphical image and a processor generating the graphical image using the at least one data set; the graphical image of the core includes symbolic representations of control blades arranged in the core, indicia identify each control blade, and indicia regarding deformation of channels adjacent each control blade, and a viewer software tool executed by the processor which accesses the at least one data set and determines a location in the core of the control blades and channels, and correlates the deformation data with the channels for display on the graphical image.

Display, visualization, and processing tool for channel distortion and cell friction mitigation

A zirconium alloy suitable for forming reactor components that exhibit reduced irradiation growth and improved corrosion resistance during operation of a light water reactor (LWR), for example, a boiling water reactor (BWR). During operation of the reactor, the reactor components will be exposed to a strong, and frequently asymmetrical, radiation fields sufficient to induce or accelerate corrosion of the irradiated alloy surfaces within the reactor core. Reactor components fabricated from the disclosed zirconium alloy will also tend to exhibit an improved tolerance for cold-working during fabrication of the component, thereby simplifying the fabrication of such components by reducing or eliminating subsequent thermal processing, for example, anneals, without unduly degrading the performance of the finished component.

LWR flow channel with reduced susceptibility to deformation and control blade interference under exposure to neutron radiation and corrosion fields

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