Reactor support charge designs and patterns have been numerous and varied over the past few years, the basis for acceptance of a particular support loading being determined from a consideration of fabrication costs and the hydraulic characteristics of the proposed dummy load as it applies to a particular reactor. Since the first three or four dummy pieces downstream of the fuel column (and upstream of the column in a spline tube) are discarded after the irradiation process, it is desirable to use tubular dummies for this portion of the support charge which are less expensive to fabricate and which are easily identified during the charging-discharging process. However, there exists a remote possibility that one or more tubular pieces could be inadvertently placed in a rear nozzle resulting in a flow restriction in the process tube. These arrangements of tubular support pieces in the dummy pattern, i.e., tubulars positioned against the fuel column and/or in the process tube rear nozzles, have been hydraulically tested to determine if there is adequate and unrestricted flow at normal operating header pressures.

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