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US 6,226,342 B1Granted
Fuel assembly comprising a component for retaining elongated elements
AssigneeABB Atom AB
InventorsAnders Micko, Peter Rudling, Dietmar Wolfram
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Abstract
A fuel assembly (1) comprising a plurality of elongated elements (3) filled with nuclear fuel and at least one component (5, 6, 7) for retaining the elongated elements (3), wherein the retaining component (5, 6, 7) is completely or partly made of a ceramic material.
Claims6
A fuel assembly comprising:
- a plurality of elongated elements filled with nuclear fuel;
- and
- at least one component for retaining the elongated elements, wherein the at least one retaining component consists essentially of a ceramic material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.