US 4,581,201 AGranted

Flexible control rod for a nuclear reactor

AssigneeAB Asea-Atom

InventorsBo Haggstrom, Erik Jonsson

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Abstract

A flexible control rod for a nuclear reactor is built up of first, second, third and fourth absorber wings which are arranged in a cruciform configuration. Each wing is divided into a number of wing elements by slots extending substantially perpendicularly to the crossing line of the wings. The first and the third wings are arranged in a first plane with the slots in these wings located pairwise in line with each other, and the second and fourth wings are arranged in a second plane and also with their associated slots located pairwise in line. Further, the slots in the first plane are diplaced in parallel in the direction of the crossing line relative to the slots in the second plane, and the portions of the wing elements adjoining the crossing line of the wings are provided with recesses. This arrangement gives good flexibility without undue loss of strength.

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Dependent claims

In a flexible, elongated control rod for a nuclear reactor which comprises elongated first and second wings of absorber material which are connected together along an imaginary crossing line to provide a cruciform configuration, each of said first and second wings including first and second wing portions which extend away from said imaginary crossing line, each of said first and second wing portions of each wing being divided into a plurality of elements by slots therein which extend substantially perpendicularly to said imaginary crossing line, the improvement wherein all the slots in said first and second wing portions of said first wing are aligned with one another along the length of said elongated control rod, wherein all the slots in said first and second wing portions of said second wing are aligned with one another along the length of said elongated control rod, wherein the slots in said first and second wing portions of said first wing are displaced along the length of said elongated control rod relative to the slots in the first and second wing portions of said second wing, and wherein each of said first and second wings includes recesses through which said imaginary crossing line passes and which are formed by the elements of the first and second wing portions thereof, at least one recess formed by the elements of one wing being located along the length of said elongated control rod to correspond with a pair of aligned slots in the wing portions of the other wing.

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