Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.

Masatoshi Nakagawa

Satoshi Nishimura

Yasushi Tsuboi

Tomonari Koga

Izumi Kinoshita

Takashi Fujita

Hiroshi Abe

Mituo Kawai

Masahiko Hirose

Yoshiharu Ochi

Tsuyoshi Yasui

Yoshiaki Sakashita

Shoichi Moriya

Hideo Shirai

Mitsuo Wakamatsu

A fuel assembly is charged in a reactor core of a nuclear reactor using a liquid metal as a coolant, and includes a wrapper tube storing a plurality of fuel pins and including an entrance nozzle for introducing the coolant and an operation handling head, grids disposed in the wrapper tube to support the fuel pins in the radial direction of the wrapper tube, liner tubes inserted in the wrapper tube to fixedly hold the respective grids in the axial direction of the wrapper tube, and a fixing device for fixing the grids and the liner tubes in the radial direction of the wrapper tube.

Fuel assembly

A fuel assembly is charged in a reactor core of a nuclear reactor using a liquid metal as a coolant and includes a wrapper tube storing a plurality of fuel pins and including an entrance nozzle at a lower end thereof for introducing the coolant and an operation handling head at an upper end thereof, grids for supporting the plurality of fuel pins in the wrapper tube in the radial direction of the wrapper tube, liner tubes inserted in the wrapper tube for fixedly holding the grids in the axial direction of the wrapper tube, and peripheral flow suppressing members disposed in a peripheral flow passage extending between peripherally disposed ones of the fuel pins and the wrapper tube over a length corresponding to a heat generation length, which is a length range in the axial direction of the fuel pins storing a radioactive fuel material.

There is disclosed a method for forming a decorative metallic nitride coating on the surface of a substrate comprising the steps of disposing said substrate to be coated as a cathode in a material gas atmosphere at a pressure of 0.1 to 10 Torr, with said substrate maintained at a temperature of 200.degree. to 1000.degree. C., and applying a voltage of 200 to 8000 V to said substrate to prepare a direct current glow discharge space in the vicinity of said substrate, the improvement which comprises using as said material gas a mixed gas of a halide of titanium, zirconium or hafnium; hydrogen; and nitrogen, and controlling the current density of the electric current flowing through said substrate to be within the range of 0.01 to 1 mA/cm.sup.2. The method according to the present invention provides a uniform and beautiful metallic nitride coating which has a metallic luster stable with time, is excellent in mar resistance, and is suitable for decoration. Further, according to the method of this invention, a decorative metallic nitride coating capable of varying a tone on a metallic luster surface over a wide range can be formed.

Method of forming a decorative metallic nitride coating

A metal alloy exhibiting exceptional damping characteristics consisting essentially of from 1 to 8% aluminum, 2 to 30% chromium, and including up to 0.02% carbon with the balance being essentially iron. The alloy is heat treated at a temperature in the range of 700.degree. to 1200.degree. C. to provide the alloy with the enhanced damping characteristics.

High damping Fe-Cr-Al alloy

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Yokohama, Japan

Masatoshi Nakagawa