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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:
Nov. 14, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft, Mulheim (Ruhr), DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
176 76 ; 176 78 ;
Abstract
A nuclear reactor-fuel element with cylindrical fuel rods and a fuel element skeleton formed of a head and foot member and cylindrical control rod-guide tubes connecting the members includes a plurality of mesh-forming spacing holder-grids for the fuel rods fastened to the guide tubes, the control rod-guide tubes being received respectively in the mesh formed by the spacing holder-grids, and flow guide means in vicinity of at least one of the spacing holder-grids largely closing, from a flow-technology standpoint, the cross section of the respective mesh surrounding the guide tube received therein.