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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2003
Yovan D. Lukic, Paradise Valley, AZ (US);
Jeffrey S. Schmidt, Glendale, AZ (US);
Yovan D. Lukic, Paradise Valley, AZ (US);
Jeffrey S. Schmidt, Glendale, AZ (US);
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
A reactor core () includes fuel assemblies () arranged in a loading pattern () in response to corresponding power levels of the fuel assemblies (). A crud deposition model () is used to predict crud deposition on the fuel assemblies () and fuel pins () within the fuel assemblies (). The prediction of crud deposition enables generation of the loading pattern () and design of lattice structures () for the fuel assemblies () that results in the reduction of total crud deposition in the reactor core () and causes a substantially uniform crud deposition on the fuel assemblies () of the reactor core ().