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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2019
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Thomas Lyman Weaver, Chicago, IL (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of removing, from a fusion power reactor, a tile that comprises a tile-support tube, which is attached to a back portion of the tile and which comprises a coolant channel that is configured in a horizontal orientation, comprises rotating the tile, which is installed in a locked orientation in a manifold channel of a first wall of the fusion power reactor, until the tile is in an install/remove orientation. The method further comprises grasping, with a removal tool, the tile-support tube. The method additionally comprises lifting the tile away from the first wall of the fusion power reactor with the removal tool such that the tile is completely removed from the manifold channel of the first wall of the fusion power reactor.