Dimick D Heller from Rustburg, VA

Dimick Heller Phones & Addresses

Nuclear Fuel Pellet Loading Method And Machine For Same
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US Patent:

20030103593, Jun 5, 2003
Filed:

May 22, 2000
Appl. No.:

09/575887
Inventors:

William Bailey - Lynchburg VA, US
Dimick Heller - Bedford VA, US
Steven Overby - Rustburg VA, US
International Classification:

G21C019/00
US Classification:

376/268000
Abstract:

An automated machine for loading nuclear reactor fuel, BP, or APSR pellets from small trays having rows of pellets into reactor rods of long length wherein the pellets are individually counted and loaded into rows of a loading tray according to the desired number of pellets per row and total number of pellets per tray with the loading tray controls being moved to a que tray where they may be weighted and there from to an unloading tray for sequential row loading into the reactor rod.