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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:
Aug. 09, 1977
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Karol J Mysels, La Jolla, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Atomic Company, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
176 30 ; 176 84 ;
Abstract
A method for axially shuffling fuel elements in a nuclear reactor is disclosed wherein column vacancies are created in a manner to allow substantially lateral transfer of a selected number of fuel elements from another adjacent column to a vacated column, the remaining fuel elements of the partially transferred column are removed and discarded whereby to create a new column vacancy, fresh fuel elements are added to the transferred fuel elements to establish a full new column of fuel elements and continuing such shuffling throughout the entire active core of the reactor.