US Patent Issued to FRAMATOME on Oct. 27 for "Nuclear fuel assembly manufacturing method, nuclear fuel assembly manufacturing plant and method of expanding such a plant" (Belgian, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,423, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to FRAMATOME (Courbevoie, France).

"Nuclear fuel assembly manufacturing method, nuclear fuel assembly manufacturing plant and method of expanding such a plant" was invented by Lawrence Mercier (Romans sur Isere, France), Andreas Falge (Nordhorn, Germany) and Amaury Fayard (Laeken, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for manufacturing a nuclear fuel assembly (2) comprising nuclear fuel rods (4) arranged in a bundle and a skeleton (6) supporting the fuel rods (4). The method comprise the steps of inserting fuel rods (4) into the skeleton (6) to obtain a fuel assembly (2) and packaging...