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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1998
Junichi Yamashita, Hitachi, JP;
Kumiaki Moriya, Hitachi, JP;
Katsumasa Haikawa, Juo-machi, JP;
Yasuhiro Masuhara, Hitachinaka, JP;
Taichi Takii, Hitachi, JP;
Akihiro Yamanaka, Hitachi, JP;
Takao Kondo, Hitachi, JP;
Motoo Aoyama, Mito, JP;
Masao Chaki, Hitachi, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A boiling water type nuclear reactor core, in which a plurality of fuel assemblies, each enclosed in a channel box, are loaded and a plurality of control rods, each having control blades, are arranged between the channel boxes. Latitudinal long blade control rods, each having control rod blades which extend latitudinally in four directions, are arranged between channel boxes on diagonals of square bundle regions each formed by a plurality of fuel assemblies, and latitudinal short blade control rods, each having control rod blades which extend latitudinally in four directions with each control rod blade having a latitudinal length of about half of the width of one of the square bundle regions, are arranged between the channel boxes in the center of each of the square bundle regions. The long blade control rods have a latitudinal blade length which is about twice as long as the latitudinal blade length of the short blade control rods.