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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
May. 17, 2005
Applicants:
William E. Bailey, Lynchburg, VA (US);
J. Todd Lee, Forest, VA (US);
Inventors:
William E. Bailey, Lynchburg, VA (US);
J. Todd Lee, Forest, VA (US);
Assignee:
AREVA NP Inc., Lynchburg, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method to load a nuclear fuel rod, comprising, providing nuclear fuel pellets in a fuel plate transfer unit; transferring the nuclear fuel pellets from the fuel plate transfer unit to a fuel pellet column through the use of a belt, indexing the nuclear fuel pellets in the fuel pellet column to a nuclear fuel pellet loading machine; and pushing the fuel pellet column into a fuel rod cladding.