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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1977
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1974
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hochtemperaturreaktor-Brennelement GmbH, Hanau, DT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
176 82 ; 176 / ;
Abstract
There are provided pressed spherical fuel elements for high temperature reactors made of a graphite matrix with separate embedded coated fuel and fertile material particles wherein the fuel elements comprise 3 concentric layers including a graphite nucleus or core (1) which only contains fertile material particles (4), this graphite nucleus (1) is surrounded by a graphite zone (2) which only contains the fuel particles (5) and this is encased in a shell (3) of pure graphite, the same graphite material being present in all three layers.