Improvement to the supports of the fuel elements in the stack of vertical channels atomic

摘要

1,026,058. Fuel elements. COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE. March 17, 1965 [March 17, 1964], No. 11297/65. Addition to 907,625. Heading G6C. A fuel element comprises a fuel member supported within a graphite sleeve by means comprising a disc-shaped graphite member positioned centrally at the base of the sleeve and connected with the sleeve by means of two identical metal hairpin-like members threaded directly through both the sleeve and the discshaped member in two directions perpendicular to one another, the ends of the two hairpin-like members engaging in a circumferential groove in the outside of the sleeve where they are joined together by welding.