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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1981
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tsuneyasu Yamanaka, Hitachi, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376448 ;
Abstract
A pad of a fuel assembly with a wrapper tube is pressed out from the interior of the wrapper tube to provide a band-like pad. The pad is reinforced by a reinforcing member fitted in a hollow portion of the pad. The pad is joint to the reinforcing member, or made so that swelling of the pad does not exceed that of the reinforcing material.