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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1992
John D McDaniels, Jr, Duluth, GA (US);
Nuclear Assurance Corporation, Norcross, GA (US);
Abstract
A tool guide plate for use in a rod consolidation system for the consolidation of spent fuel rods within a storage container. The system utilizes a robot in conjunction with long reach tools to remove spent fuel rods from an array of rods in a rod assembly and to transfer them to a rod consolidation holder. The tool guide plate has a plurality of apertures shaped to receive the end of a tool and less than the number of rods in the array and has means located on the guide plate for indexing the apertures over the rod position to provide tool access to all of the rods in the array, the apertures providing access to a plurality of rod positions in each index position.