Upper internals arrangement for a pressurized water reactor
Abstract
In a pressurized water reactor with all of the in-core instrumentation gaining access to the core through the reactor head, each fuel assembly in which the instrumentation is introduced is aligned with an upper internals instrumentation guide-way. In the elevations above the upper internals upper support assembly, the instrumentation is protected and aligned by upper mounted instrumentation columns that are part of the instrumentation guide-way and extend from the upper support assembly towards the reactor head in hue with a corresponding head penetration. The upper mounted instrumentation columns are supported laterally at one end by an upper guide tube and at the other end by the upper support plate.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Cranberry Township, PA)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1088287
- Patent Number(s):
- 8483347
- Application Number:
- 11/733,248
- Assignee:
- Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Cranberry Township, PA)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS G21C - NUCLEAR REACTORS
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC07-05ID14636
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
Citation Formats
Singleton, Norman R, Altman, David A, Yu, Ching, Rex, James A, and Forsyth, David R. Upper internals arrangement for a pressurized water reactor. United States: N. p., 2013.
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Singleton, Norman R, Altman, David A, Yu, Ching, Rex, James A, & Forsyth, David R. Upper internals arrangement for a pressurized water reactor. United States.
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"Upper internals arrangement for a pressurized water reactor". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1088287.
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abstractNote = {In a pressurized water reactor with all of the in-core instrumentation gaining access to the core through the reactor head, each fuel assembly in which the instrumentation is introduced is aligned with an upper internals instrumentation guide-way. In the elevations above the upper internals upper support assembly, the instrumentation is protected and aligned by upper mounted instrumentation columns that are part of the instrumentation guide-way and extend from the upper support assembly towards the reactor head in hue with a corresponding head penetration. The upper mounted instrumentation columns are supported laterally at one end by an upper guide tube and at the other end by the upper support plate.},
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