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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1989
Octavio J Machado, Pensacola, FL (US);
Clifford W Henry, Metairie, LA (US);
Ray L Congleton, Cantonment, FL (US);
William M Flynn, Pensacola, FL (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A spent fuel rack for storing fresh fuel assemblies, or spent fuel assemblies removed from a nuclear reactor, which includes a base plate having multiple cells of modular construction welded at their bottom ends to the plate. The cells are formed of L-shaped sections having walls which support neutron absorbing material, and the walls of one cell are common to the adjacent cells. The base plate includes openings primarily for receiving the bottom nozzle of a fuel assembly, but they further serve as access openings for apparatus used for leveling the base plate. There is also means for receiving and locking the engaging mechanism of lifting apparatus which means is wholly within the periphery of the base plate.