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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1996
John L Harmon, Wilmington, NC (US);
Richard G Patterson, Wilmington, NC (US);
Robert B Elkins, Wilmington, NC (US);
Russell P Higgins, Wilmington, NC (US);
Edward A Croteau, Mukwonago, WI (US);
Harold B King, Wrightsville Beach, NC (US);
Christian D Frederickson, Wilmington, NC (US);
Gerald M Latter, Wilmington, NC (US);
Anthony P Reese, Wilmington, NC (US);
David W White, Wilmington, NC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
In a nuclear reactor fuel bundle assembly having a plurality of fuel rods and a non-round water rod extending between upper and lower tie plates, and having at least one fuel rod spacer located along the non-round water rod, an improvement which includes cooperating components on the fuel rod spacer and on the water rod for permitting movement of the spacer along the water rod to a desired axial location and for thereafter preventing further axial movement of the spacer in at least one of two opposite axial directions, the cooperating components including at least one spring on one of the spacer and the water rod.