Patents Assigned to Gesellschaft fur Kernforschung m.b.H.
  • Fuel element for a reactor
    Patent number: 3930941
    Abstract: The outer surface of a cladding tube of a nuclear fuel element is -- for the purpose of improving the heat exchange between the cladding tube and a surrounding coolant -- provided with a plurality of parallel fin rows extending normal to the cladding tube axis. Each row is constituted by a plurality of spaced, individual fins; the fins of any one row are offset with respect to the fins of an immediately adjacent row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1973
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: Gesellschaft fur Kernforschung m.b.H.
    Inventors: Ekkehard Meerwald, Mario Dalle Donne