Spacer spring force adjustment tool and method of adjusting the spacer spring force
    1.
    发明授权
    Spacer spring force adjustment tool and method of adjusting the spacer spring force 失效
    间隔弹簧力调节工具和调节间隔弹簧力的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06385269B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-07

    申请号:US09580490

    申请日:2000-05-30

    IPC分类号: G21C1906

    摘要: An adjustment tool is provided, having a probe, a head, an arm and a micrometer attached to the head. With the probe inserted into a spacer cell opening, the micrometer handle is rotated to a predetermined setting to pivot the arm. The opposite end of the arm from its engagement with the micrometer drive head engages and displaces the spring of the spacer cell to adjust its spring force. In one form, the arm is housed within the probe and the micrometer drive head displaces the distal end of the arm outwardly to correspondingly displace the spring outwardly, thereby decreasing the spring force. In another form of the spacer tool, the arm is spaced from the probe and has pivotal contact surfaces to straddle the spring. Movement of the drive head by rotating the micrometer handle to a predetermined setting causes the spring to be displaced inwardly of the spacer cell opening to increase the spacer spring force.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种调节工具,其具有附接到头部的探针,头部,臂和千分尺。 当探头插入间隔单元开口中时,千分尺手柄旋转到预定的设置以使臂枢转。 臂的相对端与测微计驱动头的接合接合和移动间隔电池的弹簧以调节其弹簧力。 在一种形式中,臂被容纳在探针内,并且千分尺驱动头向外移动臂的远端,以使弹簧向外移动,由此减小弹簧力。 在隔离器工具的另一种形式中,臂与探头间隔开并且具有枢转接触表面以跨越弹簧。 通过将千分尺手柄旋转到预定的设置,驱动头的运动使弹簧向间隔开孔的内部移动以增加间隔弹簧力。

    Tool kit for fabricating, inspecting and handling a nuclear fuel bundle
    2.
    发明授权
    Tool kit for fabricating, inspecting and handling a nuclear fuel bundle 失效
    用于制造,检查和处理核燃料束的工具包

    公开(公告)号:US06333957B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-12-25

    申请号:US09440513

    申请日:1999-11-15

    IPC分类号: G21C3322

    摘要: A tool kit for adjusting the angular orientation of water rods about respective axes in a nuclear fuel bundle includes a washer wrench, socket, orientator wrenches, orientator gauges and an orientator cap. The washer wrench has opposed jaws having parallel surfaces and reliefs at junctures between the surfaces and the base of the jaws to inhibit rounding off corners of tie bars connected to the water rods. The socket has a corresponding D-shaped recess as the tie bar ends to facilitate rotational adjustment thereof. Orientator wrenches have witness notches for aligning the flats of the tie bars. The orientator gauges comprise a series of gauge bodies each having a pair of axially parallel openings with stepped margins to the openings such that one opening is axially offset from the margin defining the entrance to the other opening. The orientator cap has complementary-shaped openings for receiving the upper ends of the tie bars to maintain the orientation of the tie bars and water rods during shipment of the fuel bundle.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于调节水棒在角度方向上的角度方向的工具包,包括一个垫圈扳手,插座,定向扳手,定向计和取向盖。 垫圈扳手具有相对的夹爪,其在表面和夹爪的基部之间的接合处具有平行的表面和浮雕,以防止连接到水杆的连接条的角落四周。 当连接杆端部时,插座具有相应的D形凹槽,以便于其旋转调节。 定向扳手已经存在用于对准连接条的平面的凹口。 定向计包括一系列测量体,每个测量体具有一对轴向平行的开口,其具有到开口的阶梯状边缘,使得一个开口从限定另一个开口的入口的边缘轴向偏移。 定向器盖具有用于接收连杆的上端的互补形状的开口,以在燃料束运输期间保持连杆和水杆的取向。

    Tool for retracting fuel rods from and inserting fuel rods into a nuclear fuel assembly and methods therefor
    3.
    发明授权
    Tool for retracting fuel rods from and inserting fuel rods into a nuclear fuel assembly and methods therefor 失效
    用于将燃料棒从燃料棒收回并插入核燃料组件的工具及其方法

    公开(公告)号:US06320922B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-11-20

    申请号:US09307032

    申请日:1999-05-07

    IPC分类号: G21C19105

    摘要: The extraction tool includes an inner rod pivotally mounting at its distal end a pair of collet sections having mechanical clamping jaws. An outer tube may be advanced and retracted axially relative to the inner rod by a locking tube nut threaded on a sleeve forming part of the inner rod. The inner rod and outer tube are non-rotationally engaged with one another. By axially displacing the outer tube relative to the inner rod, the collet sections are movable between collet-open and closed positions such that the jaws of the collet can respectively grasp and release the barbed end of the end plug of the fuel rod.

    摘要翻译: 提取工具包括在其远端枢轴地安装一对具有机械夹爪的夹头部分的内杆。 外管可以通过螺纹连接在形成内杆的一部分的套筒上的锁定管螺母相对于内杆轴向前进和缩回。 内杆和外管彼此不旋转地接合。 通过相对于内杆轴向移动外管,夹头部分可在夹头打开和关闭位置之间移动,使得夹头的夹爪可以分别抓住并释放燃料棒的端塞的倒钩端。

    Nuclear fuel bundle having spacers captured by a water rod
    4.
    发明授权
    Nuclear fuel bundle having spacers captured by a water rod 有权
    具有由水杆捕获的隔离物的核燃料束

    公开(公告)号:US06539073B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-03-25

    申请号:US09505861

    申请日:2000-02-17

    IPC分类号: G21C334

    摘要: Water rod segments are provided in a nuclear fuel bundle and releasably connected one to the other at joints within openings through the spacers. A lowermost water rod segment passes through a number of the spacers, with water rods segments above the lowermost segment being screwthreaded one to the other forming joints therebetween within the spacer openings. Capture flanges are provided immediately above and below the spacers on each of the segments such that the spacer is captured between adjoining segments. Interior passages through the segments communicate water along the water rod to an upper region of the fuel bundle. Swirler vanes are disposed about the water rod segments and terminal ends of the swirler vanes may form the capture flanges, retaining the spacer between adjacent segments.

    摘要翻译: 水杆段设置在核燃料束中并且通过间隔件在开口内的接头处可释放地连接到另一个。 最下面的水杆段通过多个间隔件,最下段上方的水杆段在间隔开口内螺纹连接到另一个成形接头。 在每个段上的间隔件的正上方和下方设置捕获凸缘,使得间隔件被捕获在相邻段之间。 通过段的内部通道将水沿着水杆传递到燃料束的上部区域。 旋流叶片设置在水杆段周围,旋流器叶片的终端可以形成捕获凸缘,将间隔件保持在相邻段之间。

    Extraction tool for partial length fuel rods in nuclear fuel assemblies
    5.
    发明授权
    Extraction tool for partial length fuel rods in nuclear fuel assemblies 失效
    核燃料组件中部分长度燃料棒的提取工具

    公开(公告)号:US5825837A

    公开(公告)日:1998-10-20

    申请号:US613663

    申请日:1996-03-11

    IPC分类号: G21C19/105

    摘要: An extraction tool for removing a partial length fuel rod from a fuel bundle assembly, wherein the partial length fuel rod has an upper end plug, the tool comprising an extension rod having a pair of gripper jaws mounted at one end thereof, the gripper jaws shaped and sized to engage the upper end plug; and a locking tube slidably received over the extension rod and engageable with the gripper jaws to lock the gripper jaws to the upper end plug.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于从燃料束组件去除部分长度的燃料棒的提取工具,其中所述部分长度燃料棒具有上端塞,所述工具包括延伸杆,所述延伸杆在其一端安装有一对夹爪,所述夹爪形成 并且尺寸适于接合上端塞; 以及锁定管,其可滑动地容纳在所述延伸杆上并与所述夹爪夹合以将所述夹爪锁定到所述上端塞。

    Methods for guiding a fuel bundle into a channel
    6.
    发明授权
    Methods for guiding a fuel bundle into a channel 失效
    将燃料束引导到通道中的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06310930B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-10-30

    申请号:US09548350

    申请日:2000-04-12

    IPC分类号: G21C1900

    CPC分类号: G21C19/18

    摘要: A guide assembly is seated at the upper end of a channel for a nuclear fuel bundle. The guide assembly includes a lower guide plate with an opening corresponding in dimension to the dimension of the spacers of the fuel bundle to be inserted. The lower guide plate mounts depending locators to locate the guide apparatus on the channel. An upper guide plate spaced above the lower guide plate mounts rollers spaced from the lower guide plate a distance corresponding to the distance between the first and second spacers of the fuel bundle. The fuel bundle is lowered through the guide apparatus by engagement of the spacers with the rollers and in the channel opening to ensure the fuel bundle is guided into the channel without damage to either.

    摘要翻译: 引导组件位于用于核燃料束的通道的上端。 引导组件包括下引导板,其具有与要插入的燃料束的间隔件的尺寸相对应的开口。 下引导板安装依赖定位器以将引导装置定位在通道上。 在下引导板上方间隔开的上引导板将与下引导板间隔开的辊安置在与燃料束的第一和第二间隔件之间的距离相对应的距离处。 燃料束通过引导装置通过间隔件与辊的接合以及在通道开口中降低,以确保燃料束被引导到通道中而不损坏其中之一。

    Nuclear fuel bundle spacer envelope dimension measuring system and
methods
    7.
    发明授权
    Nuclear fuel bundle spacer envelope dimension measuring system and methods 失效
    核燃料束间隔套管尺寸测量系统及方法

    公开(公告)号:US6125160A

    公开(公告)日:2000-09-26

    申请号:US359665

    申请日:1999-07-26

    IPC分类号: G21C17/06 G21C19/00 A45B3/08

    CPC分类号: G21C17/06

    摘要: The spacer envelope measurement system includes a generally U-shaped fixture having support plates extensible into positions overlying the spacer for supporting the fixture from the spacer. Extensible heads are carried by the fixture for engaging the spacer, followed by the heads of measurement gauges whereby, upon extending the heads into clamping engagement with the spacer along opposite sides thereof, the measurement gauges accurately determine the lateral dimensions of the irradiated spacer. A spacer bar clamp member is pivotal between positions opening the fixture opposite the base leg of the U-shaped fixture, enabling the bundle to reside within the U-shaped opening and a second position closing the opening for aligning the fixture and the bundle. The measurements are taken under water in a nuclear fuel service pool.

    摘要翻译: 间隔包膜测量系统包括大致U形的固定装置,其具有可延伸到覆盖间隔件的位置的支撑板,用于从间隔件支撑夹具。 可伸缩头由用于接合间隔件的夹具承载,随后是测量计的头部,由此在将头部沿相对侧延伸到与间隔件夹紧接合时,测量计精确地确定照射的间隔件的横向尺寸。 间隔杆夹紧构件在打开与U形夹具的基部支脚相对的夹具的位置之间枢转,使得束可以位于U形开口内,而第二位置封闭开口以对准夹具和束。 测量在核燃料服务池中的水下进行。

    Length gauge for in situ measurement of water rod lengths in nuclear
fuel bundles and methods of measurement
    9.
    发明授权
    Length gauge for in situ measurement of water rod lengths in nuclear fuel bundles and methods of measurement 失效
    用于核燃料束中水杆长度的原位测量的长度计和测量方法

    公开(公告)号:US5978430A

    公开(公告)日:1999-11-02

    申请号:US166935

    申请日:1998-10-06

    IPC分类号: G01B3/22 G01B5/02 G21C17/06

    CPC分类号: G21C17/06

    摘要: The length gauge includes an elongated standards rod, an indicator location block carrying a gauge and an indicator set block. The set block is applied to the location block and the gauge is zeroed out at a known distance between the movable element on the gauge and a reference surface. Water rods are assembled to a tie plate and the gauge is used to measure the length of the adjustable length water rods. The location block receives in a recess a portion of the tie bar of the water rod. The standards rod engages the tie plate and the gauge pin engages the opposite end of the standards rod. Any deviation in the length of the water rod from a designed length is indicated on the gauge.

    摘要翻译: 长度计包括细长的标准杆,带有量规的指示器位置块和指示器组块。 设定块应用于位置块,并且仪表在仪表上的可移动元件与参考表面之间已知距离处被清零。 水杆组装到一个连接板上,该量规用于测量可调节长度的水棒的长度。 定位块在凹槽中容纳水杆的连接杆的一部分。 标准杆接合连接板,量规销接合标准杆的相对端。 仪表上显示水杆长度与设计长度的任何偏差。