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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:
Sep. 06, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anthony P Reese, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376443 ; 376448 ;
Abstract
In a fuel bundle having an array of fuel rods of 9-by-9 or greater, removal of the corner fuel rods from the array occurs. This removal enables the remainder of the array rod-to-rod pitch to be decreased. Further, and over this array with the corner fuel rod removed, a fuel bundle channel having rounded corners of increased radius of curvature or flattened corners imparting a broadly taped curvature is utilized. In both cases, the effective flat span of the fuel bundle sides is reduced with the result that the new fuel bundle incorporates improved resistance to channel bulge with improved critical power.