US Patent Issued to Westinghouse Electric on July 14 for "Debris filtering arrangement for nuclear fuel assembly bottom nozzle and bottom nozzle including same" (South Carolina, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,033, issued on July 14, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Debris filtering arrangement for nuclear fuel assembly bottom nozzle and bottom nozzle including same" was invented by Artem Aleshin (Waukesha, Wis.) and Yuriy Aleshin (Cayce, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering arrangement for use in a bottom nozzle of a fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of vertical wall portions arranged in a generally squared grid-like pattern which extend between the bottom surface and the top surface and define a plurality of non-circular passages ex...