US Patent Issued to FRAMATOME on Nov. 3 for "Nuclear fuel assembly bottom end part debris filter and method of manufacturing such a debris filter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,922, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FRAMATOME (Courbevoie, France).

"Nuclear fuel assembly bottom end part debris filter and method of manufacturing such a debris filter" was invented by Dirk Blavius (Erlangen, Germany) and Matthias Lamm (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear fuel assembly bottom end part debris filter has an inlet face (18A) and an outlet face (18B) opposed to the inlet face (18A) and comprises a plurality of filtering structures (50) protruding on the inlet face (18A) of the debris filter (18). Each filtering structure (50) has a structure base (52) and a structure apex (54) spaced along a st...