Published June 28, 1996
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Patent
A fuel assembly containing burnable poison and the reactor operating process involving such an assembly
Description
The fuel assembly, aimed at a more efficient control of PWR cores, is composed of pins that are distributed at the nodes of a square array and which contain fuel material; some of the pins have a gadolinium primary mass content comprised between 5 and 12%; four to twelve supplementary pins have a gadolinium content comprised between 0.5 and 2%
Availability note (English)
Available from Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle, Paris (France).Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Assemblage combustible a poison consommable et procede d'exploitation de reacteur mettant en oeuvre un tel assemblage
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 10 p.
- IPC:
- Int. Cl. G21c3/328; G21c5/12.
- IPC
- Int. Cl. G21c3/328; G21c5/12.
- Patent number
- FR patent document 2728718/A/
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 28028370
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- BURNABLE POISONS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROL ELEMENTS; FUEL PINS; GADOLINIUM; PWR TYPE REACTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FUEL ELEMENTS; MATERIALS; METALS; NEUTRON ABSORBERS; NUCLEAR POISONS; POWER REACTORS; RARE EARTHS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 4 refs.
- Secondary number(s)
- FR patent application 9415593.