Patent ID: 7636652

Claim:
A method of moving nuclear fuel from a fuel pool with a graphical user interface, the method comprising: inputting at least one fuel attribute into the graphical user interface; graphically populating, by the graphical user interface, a graphical loading map with graphical fuel bundles, the graphical fuel bundles representing fuel bundles in at least one fuel pool, the graphical user interface populating the graphical loading map according to the input at least one fuel attribute and at least one corresponding attribute of the nuclear fuel bundles represented by the graphical fuel bundles, the graphical user interface including one or more loading tools configured to graphically select, sort, filter, or move the graphical fuel bundles into the graphical loading map based on the at least one corresponding attribute of the fuel bundles represented by the graphical fuel bundles; graphically filtering, by the graphical user interface, the graphical fuel bundles in the graphical loading map, the graphical filtering based on the input of at least one fuel attribute; and physically placing the fuel bundles into a reactor core according to the populated graphical loading map.