| Westinghouse Electric Company Patent applications |
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| 20120206011 | NOISE AND VIBRATION MITIGATION SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS EMPLOYING AN ACOUSTIC SIDE BRANCH RESONATOR - A method of designing/making an acoustic side branch resonator structured to be coupled to a standpipe of, for example, a nuclear power plant, wherein the acoustic side branch resonator includes a plurality of wire mesh elements for damping purposes. The method includes determining a resonant frequency of the standpipe, determining an active length of the acoustic side branch resonator using the resonant frequency, and determining a particular number of the wire mesh elements to be used in the acoustic side branch resonator and a pitch of each of the wire mesh elements using momentum and continuity equations of a compressible fluid. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20110200160 | SPLIT SPRING ANTI-FRETTING FUEL ROD SUPPORT STRUCTURE - A nuclear fuel assembly grid having a vertical, elongated, split spring on each wall of the cells that support fuel rods to provide eight, co-planar, point contacts of support for the fuel rod. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110085633 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION SIGNALS - A method of monitoring a condition of a nuclear reactor pressure vessel disposed in a radioactive environment is provided. The method includes the steps of sensing a condition of the reactor pressure vessel with an instrument, transmitting a signal indicative of the condition of the reactor pressure vessel from the instrument to a powered wireless transmitting modem disposed in the radioactive environment, wirelessly transmitting a signal indicative of the condition of the reactor pressure vessel from the transmitting modem to a receiving modem in the line of sight of the transmitting modem, transmitting a signal indicative of the condition of the reactor pressure vessel from the receiving modem to a signal processing unit, and determining the condition of the reactor pressure vessel from the wirelessly transmitted signal. | 04-14-2011 |
