US 2011/0075784 A1 · NUCLEAR FUEL CELL REPAIR TOOL

Abstract

A method of repairing a nuclear fuel cell wall and tools useful for performing that repair are described. A repair tool may be used to align a jack near a region of a bent or distorted structural component of nuclear fuel cell and that jack may be used to apply a force to that structural component. Application of such a force may serve to bend the structural component of a nuclear fuel cell in a way to restore the structural component to its position before damage occurred. The repair tool includes a way of mounting that tool to a fuel cell, positioning elements to align the tool near a structural deformation or bent element and a jack that may be use to apply a force to at least one structural component in a fuel cell.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A nuclear fuel cell repair tool, comprising:

a main body;
a jack depending from said main body, said jack being adapted for applying a force to a structural deformation of a nuclear fuel cell;
a support member depending from said main body, said support member being adapted for supporting said tool on the nuclear fuel cell;
and
a force reacting member depending from said main body, said force reacting member being adapted for engagement with the nuclear fuel cell and being aligned with said jack so as to react said force.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/569,746Filed 29 Sep 2009

Published

31 Mar 2011

Term ends

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Classification10 codes

G21C 17/06
Monitoring; Testing ; Maintaining: devices or arrangements for monitoring or testing fuel or fuel elements outside the reactor core, e.g. for…
G21C 19/12
Details of handling arrangements: arrangements for exerting direct hydraulic or pneumatic force on fuel element or on control element
G21C 19/207
Arrangements for introducing objects into the pressure vessel; Arrangements for handling objects within the pressure vessel; Arrangements for…:…
Y02E 30/30
Energy generation of nuclear origin: nuclear fission reactors

Nuclear fuel cell repair tool

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Nuclear fuel cell repair tool

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Abstract

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