US Patent Issued to FRAMATOME on Sept. 9 for "Debris filter for a nuclear fuel assembly bottom end part and method of manufacturing such a debris filter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,673, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FRAMATOME (Courbevoie, France).

"Debris filter for a nuclear fuel assembly bottom end part and method of manufacturing such a debris filter" was invented by Friedrich Erhard (Eckental, Germany), Sven Finzel (Forchheim, Germany), Christoph Kraus (Heiligenstadt, Germany), Dirk Blavius (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Hofbeck (Nuremberg, Germany) and Shawn Heath (Eggolsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A debris filter configured for a nuclear fuel assembly bottom end part includes a lower nozzle (8) and the debris filter (18) is supported by the lower nozzle (8). The debris filter (18) has ...