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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:
Jul. 18, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Samuel A Worcester, Ogden, UT (US);
Charles R Woods, Ogden, UT (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B / ; C21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75 1026 ; 75 101 ; 75 1028 ; 75 6 / ; 75 845 ;
Abstract
This is a process for making a very pure and very homogeneous material for use in lining the interior of zirconium alloy fuel element cladding. The improvement utilizes the forming of a consumable electrode from generally virgin sponge material, melting the consumable electrode in a multiple swept beam electron beam furnace with a feed rate between 1 and 20 inches per hour and then vacuum arc melting the EB melted material.