Published March 13, 1979 | Version v1
Patent

Fuel assembly

Description

Purpose: To reduce the fissile material content at the corner part of a fuel assembly, thereby attempting to perform the uniform burnup of fuel and simplification of the driving operation and preventing occurrence of an one side burning phenomenon. Constitution: The ratio of a fissile material contained in at least three fuel rods of the adjacent corner part at the central part of the control rod is made less than 65% of the average contained ratio per the full fuel rod of the fuel assembly, whereby the power rise of the fuel rods in the vicinities of control rods and the rise of the local peaking coefficient are suppressed, the fuel is uniformly burnt at the time of extracting the control rods during the operation of the reactor, the fuel is uniformly burnt and bad influences over the fuel cladding tube due to one side burnup are prevented to attempt to simplify the operational procedure. (Yoshino, Y.)

Availability note (English)

Available from JAPATIC. Also available from INPADOC.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
7 p.
IPC:
Int. Cl. G21C3/32.
IPC
Int. Cl. G21C3/32.
Patent number
JP patent document 54-33993/A/

INIS

Country of Publication
Japan
Country of Input or Organization
Japan
INIS RN
11514317
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
BURNUP; BWR TYPE REACTORS; CONFIGURATION; CONTROL ELEMENTS; FISSILE MATERIALS; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; FUEL RODS; QUANTITY RATIO; REACTOR OPERATION
Descriptors DEC
FISSIONABLE MATERIALS; FUEL ELEMENTS; OPERATION; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS