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US08335293B1 Nuclear fuel grid assembly with hydraulically balanced mixing vane pattern
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具有液压平衡混合叶片模式的核燃料电网组件
- Patent Title: Nuclear fuel grid assembly with hydraulically balanced mixing vane pattern
- Patent Title (中): 具有液压平衡混合叶片模式的核燃料电网组件
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Application No.: US12434985Application Date: 2009-05-04
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Publication No.: US08335293B1Publication Date: 2012-12-18
- Inventor: Kyong-Bo Eom , Kyu-Tae Kim , Jung-Min Suh , Nam-Gyu Park , Joon-Kyoo Park , Jin-Sun Kim , Dong-Geun Ha , Kyoung-Joo Kim , Il-Kyu Kim , Seong-Ki Lee , Jin-Seok Lee , Kang-Hoon Kim , Sung-Kew Park , Kyeong-Lak Jeon
- Applicant: Kyong-Bo Eom , Kyu-Tae Kim , Jung-Min Suh , Nam-Gyu Park , Joon-Kyoo Park , Jin-Sun Kim , Dong-Geun Ha , Kyoung-Joo Kim , Il-Kyu Kim , Seong-Ki Lee , Jin-Seok Lee , Kang-Hoon Kim , Sung-Kew Park , Kyeong-Lak Jeon
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: Korea Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Korea Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Agency: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.
- Priority: KR10-2008-0134519 20081226
- Main IPC: G21C3/34
- IPC: G21C3/34

Abstract:
Disclosed is a spacer grid assembly with mixing vanes supporting fuel rods of nuclear fuel assemblies and mixing coolant that flows around the fuel rods, and more particularly, a spacer grid equipped with mixing vanes that mix coolant flowing around fuel rods.The spacer grid with hydraulically balanced mixing vane patterns, in the spacer grid equipped with a strip dividing a plurality of unit grid cells and a plurality of springs, protruded in uniform directions of vertical and horizontal directions on a grid surface of the strip and supporting nuclear fuel rods, which includes: a plurality of mixing vanes protruded to the downstream of coolant on an upper end of the inner grid surface, wherein positions and directions of the mixing vanes are formed in regular patterns on the spacer grid. Thus, it can minimize coolant flow induced vibration of the spacer grid by balancing hydraulic load generated by the mixing vanes, around the center of the spacer grids.
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