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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Octavio J Machado, Pensacola, FL (US);
Robert T Berringer, Gulf Breeze, FL (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
176 87 ; 176 65 ;
Abstract
A baffle-former arrangement for the reactor vessel internals of a nuclear reactor. The arrangement includes positioning of formers at the same elevations as the fuel assembly grids, and positioning flow holes in the baffle plates directly beneath selected former grid elevations. The arrangement reduces detrimental cross flows, maintains proper core barrel and baffle temperatures, and alleviates the potential of overpressurization within the baffle-former assembly under assumed major accident conditions.