TWI346302B - Method and apparatus for facilitating recovery of nuclear fuel from a fuel pool - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for facilitating recovery of nuclear fuel from a fuel pool

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TWI346302B
TWI346302B TW093128919A TW93128919A TWI346302B TW I346302 B TWI346302 B TW I346302B TW 093128919 A TW093128919 A TW 093128919A TW 93128919 A TW93128919 A TW 93128919A TW I346302 B TWI346302 B TW I346302B
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fuel
facilitating recovery
pool
nuclear fuel
nuclear
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David Joseph Kropaczek
Steven Barry Sutton
Christian Carlos Oyarzun
Carey Reid Merritt
John Dean Fuller
Ii Russell
Margaret Estelle Harding
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Global Nuclear Fuel Americas
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G21NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21DNUCLEAR POWER PLANT
    • G21D3/00Control of nuclear power plant
    • G21D3/001Computer implemented control
    • GPHYSICS
    • G21NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21CNUCLEAR REACTORS
    • G21C17/00Monitoring; Testing ; Maintaining
    • G21C17/06Devices or arrangements for monitoring or testing fuel or fuel elements outside the reactor core, e.g. for burn-up, for contamination
    • GPHYSICS
    • G21NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21CNUCLEAR REACTORS
    • G21C19/00Arrangements for treating, for handling, or for facilitating the handling of, fuel or other materials which are used within the reactor, e.g. within its pressure vessel
    • G21C19/18Apparatus for bringing fuel elements to the reactor charge area, e.g. from a storage place
    • GPHYSICS
    • G21NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21CNUCLEAR REACTORS
    • G21C19/00Arrangements for treating, for handling, or for facilitating the handling of, fuel or other materials which are used within the reactor, e.g. within its pressure vessel
    • G21C19/20Arrangements for introducing objects into the pressure vessel; Arrangements for handling objects within the pressure vessel; Arrangements for removing objects from the pressure vessel
    • G21C19/205Interchanging of fuel elements in the core, i.e. fuel shuffling
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02EREDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E30/00Energy generation of nuclear origin
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02EREDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E30/00Energy generation of nuclear origin
    • Y02E30/30Nuclear fission reactors

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Plasma & Fusion (AREA)
  • High Energy & Nuclear Physics (AREA)
  • Monitoring And Testing Of Nuclear Reactors (AREA)
TW093128919A 2003-10-06 2004-09-23 Method and apparatus for facilitating recovery of nuclear fuel from a fuel pool TWI346302B (en)

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US10/678,170 US7636652B2 (en) 2003-10-06 2003-10-06 Method and apparatus for facilitating recovery of nuclear fuel from a fuel pool

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TWI346302B true TWI346302B (en) 2011-08-01

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US (2) US7636652B2 (zh)
EP (1) EP1530221B1 (zh)
JP (1) JP4895491B2 (zh)
ES (1) ES2494815T3 (zh)
MX (1) MXPA04009653A (zh)
TW (1) TWI346302B (zh)

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JP2005114728A (ja) 2005-04-28
US7636652B2 (en) 2009-12-22
US20050086036A1 (en) 2005-04-21
MXPA04009653A (es) 2005-10-06
ES2494815T3 (es) 2014-09-16
US7941305B2 (en) 2011-05-10
EP1530221B1 (en) 2014-07-23
TW200527299A (en) 2005-08-16
JP4895491B2 (ja) 2012-03-14
US20100100364A1 (en) 2010-04-22

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