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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 28, 1994
Charles A Dalke, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles W Dillmann, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Charles W Relf, Fremont, CA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A fuel bundle assembly for a boiling water nuclear reactor includes an open ended tubular channel subdivided into four quadrants by at least two interior partitions, each quadrant having a sub-fuel bundle assembly having a plurality of fuel rods extending between upper and lower tie plates. An inter-bundle support plate receives a lower end of the channel and has four flow openings at an upper end thereof, such that the lower tie plate of each sub-fuel bundle supported in a respective one of the openings in the support plate. In one embodiment, the sub-fuel bundles within a channel are separated by a cruciform shaped coolant passage. In a second embodiment, the cruciform coolant passage is omitted to thus provide a homogeneous sub-fuel bundle configuration.