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Title:
MANUFACTURE OF FUEL ROD AND END PLUG USED THEREFOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3132875
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To obtain the manufacturing method of a fuel rod wherein it can keep a welding property extremely satisfactorily and the ultrasonic inspection of a welded part is performed smoothly and surely and to obtain an end plug used for it.
CONSTITUTION: In an upper-part end plug 1, a sealing hole 8 is made in the central part of an end plug body 3 and a ring-shaped V-groove 10 is formed around an opening part 9 in the sealing hole 8. The upper-part end plug is used, and the part between the ring-shaped V-groove 10 and the opening part 9 in the sealing hole 8 is used as an arc lead part 11, a welding operation is performed, the arc lead part 11 is melted and the opening part 9 in the sealing hole 8 is sealed. At this time, when the position of the welding part of the sealing hole is set to be deeper than a taper face 7 which is formed between the end face 5 and the outer circumferential face 6 of the upper-part end plug 1, it is possible to prevent that a corner part 12 between the taper face 7 and the outer circumferential face 6 interferes with an ultrasonic inspection region.


Inventors:
Yoshitaka Yaginuma
Application Number:
JP100692A
Publication Date:
February 05, 2001
Filing Date:
January 07, 1992
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
G01N29/04; G21C3/10; G21C21/02; (IPC1-7): G21C21/02; G01N29/10; G21C3/10
Domestic Patent References:
JP5196760A
JP231190A
JP4643080B1
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masatake Shiga (2 outside)