Published December 26, 1987 | Version v1
Patent

Fuel assembly

Description

Purpose: To ensure the reactor shutdown margin upon reactor shutdown by optimizing the arrangement for fuel rods incorporated with burnable poisons. Constitution: All of fuel rods incorporated with burnable poisons are arranged from the outermost periphery to the second layer in the lower portion of an assembly and several of them are disposed at the central portion of the assembly in the upper portion of the assembly. Such an arrangement can increase the neutron moderating effect due to reactor shutdown in the central region in the upper portion of the assembly to increase the neutron absorption by burnable poisons, by which the reactivity in the upper portion of the reactor core is suppressed to improve the reactor shutdown margin. (Kamimura, M.)

Availability note (English)

Available from JAPIO. Also available from INPADOC.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
5 p.
IPC:
Int. Cl. G21C3/32.
IPC
Int. Cl. G21C3/32.
Patent number
JP patent document 62-299790/A/

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
JP patent application 61-143053.