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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2016
TN International, Montigney le Bretonneux, FR;
TN INTERNATIONAL, Montigney le Bretonneux, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to a storage device for storing and/or transporting nuclear fuel assemblies, which includes recesses () defined by separating partitions () defining first and second recesses (), the partition comprising: two first walls () defining the first and second recesses and made of an aluminium-alloy material which is free of neutron-absorbing elements, and defining therebetween a first inter-wall space (); two second walls () arranged in the first space () and made of a material which comprises neutron-absorbing elements, the distance between the inner () and outer () surfaces of each second wall () defining a thickness (e), and a distance (E) being defined between the outer surface () of each second wall and a median partition plane (), the values meeting the condition 0.1≤e/E≤0.43.