Liquid metal pump for nuclear reactors

Patent · 01 October 1975

OSTI ID:4055930

Allen, H G; Maloney, J R

A pump for use in pumping high temperature liquids at high pressures, particularly liquid metals used to cool nuclear reactors is described. It is of the type in which the rotor is submerged in a sump but is fed by an inlet duct which bypasses the sump. A chamber, kept full of fluid, surrounds the pump casing into which fluid is bled from the pump discharge and from which fluid is fed to the rotor bearings and hence to the sump. This equalizes pressure inside and outside the pump casing and reduces or eliminates the thermal shock to the bearings and sump tank.

• Research Organization: Originating Research Org. not identified
• NSA Number: NSA-33-028061
• Assignee: to U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
• Patent Number(s): US 3910714; PAT-APPL-531,589.
• OSTI ID: 4055930
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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