METHOD FOR DISMANTLING A CONTROL ELEMENT OF A BOILING WATER REACTOR

1 . A method of dismantling a control element of a boiling water reactor, the method which comprises:

providing a control element having a longitudinal center axis defining a longitudinal direction, a cross-shaped solid core body and control element leaves disposed in a cross shape, originating from the solid core body and having mutually-opposite substantially flat sides, the control element leaves including two first control element leaves disposed opposite one another relative to said longitudinal center axis and two second control element leaves disposed opposite one another relative to said longitudinal center axis;

moving the control element and a guide relative to each other in axial direction;

providing a cutting unit with at least two cutting rolls;

placing one of the cutting rolls onto one of the mutually-opposite substantially flat sides of one of the control element leaves in vicinity of the solid core body, and placing another of the cutting rolls onto one of the mutually-opposite substantially flat sides of another of the control element leaves disposed opposite to the one of the control leaves, relative to the longitudinal center axis; and

separating the first control element leaves from the second control element leaves with the cutting unit in a roll-cutting process and thereby cutting along a cutting line extending in the longitudinal direction and in a vicinity of the longitudinal center axis.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , which comprises forming a roll cut on each of two flat sides of each said first control element leaf using oppositely inclined cutting rolls.