Nuclear reactor control

Patent · Tue Mar 30 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5062262

Cawley, W E; Warnick, R F

In a nuclear reactor incorporating a plurality of columns of tubular fuel elements disposed in horizontal tubes in a mass of graphite wherein water flows through the tubes to cool the fuel elements, the improvement comprising at least one control column disposed in a horizontal tube including fewer fuel elements than in a normal column of fuel elements and tubular control elements disposed at both ends of said control column, and means for varying the horizontal displacement of the control column comprising a winch at the upstream end of the control column and a cable extending through the fuel and control elements and attached to the element at the downstream end of the column.

• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): US 4322853
• OSTI ID: 5062262
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 27 Aug 1963; Other Information: PAT-APPL-305245
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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