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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
May. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Westinghouse Electric Company Llc, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Inventors:
James A. Sparrow, Irmo, SC (US);
Jeffrey T. Alexander, Columbia, SC (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 3/32 (2006.01); G21C 3/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 3/3305 (2013.01);
Abstract
A VVER-1000 nuclear fuel assembly having a modified bottom nozzle with chamfers at the upper edge of the frustoconical transition from a hexagonal upper section of the nozzle to the lower circular end that mounts on a lower core support.