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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:
May. 11, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Heinz-Peter Holley, Forchheim, DE;
Rolf Holzer, Erlangen, DE;
Guenther Lill, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Alfred Neufert, Langensendelbach, DE;
Wolfgang Schricker, Schwaig, DE;
Peter Suchy, Erlangen, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376438 ; 376431 ; 376444 ;
Abstract
A fuel assembly of a pressurized water nuclear reactor includes at least two fuel rods, respectively, having a cladding tube of given outer and inner diameters and pellets of given outer diameter received in the cladding tube, the fuel rods being disposed in the fuel assembly at a given mutual spacing of center points thereof, a ratio of the given mutual spacing of the center points of the fuel rods to the outer diameter of the cladding tube being in a range between 1.35 and 1.37.