Published June 28, 1996 | Version v1
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/

Optional Information

Notes
4 refs.
Secondary number(s)
FR patent application 9415593.