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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.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Worcester, Samuel. (1989). Combined electron beam and vacuum arc melting for barrier tube shell (U.S. Patent No. 4849013). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4849013

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