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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:
Jun. 14, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeffrey G Larson, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Assignee:
The Babcock & Wilcox Company, New Orleans, LA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376442 ; 376438 ; 376439 ;
Abstract
A spacer grid for a nuclear fuel assembly wherein hangup between diagonally adjacent fuel assemblies in the reactor core during loading and unloading is essentially precluded by providing an inclined plane deflection surface at each corner of the spacer grid.