An automatic disassembling and reassembling system for nuclear fuel assemblies has been made for a test. This system is expected to be useful for fuel rod reassembling for high burn-up reactor and economic management of fuel rods.
The system consists of assembly holding and positioning mechanism, upper tie-plate handling mechanism, fuel rod handling mechanism and control device. As for the upper tie-plate handling mechanism, simple and reliable attach-detach mechanism has been developed instead of current mechanism, that is used in BWRs.
As a result of functional test, the following system performances have been confirmed:
(1) The processing time for attaching and detaching upper tie-plate is about 90s.
(2) About 10 fuel rods can be reassembled in 1h.
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