HETEROGENEOUS, HIGH TEMPERATURE POWER REACTOR
A gas-cooled power reactor comprises an annular graphite core able to turn about its vertical axis. The fuelelement channels cross the core structure radially. The charge or discharge of a fuel element is easily performed by turning the core so that the end of the fuel-element channel in question comes in front of one of several charge openings in the reactor shell. A new element is then pushed from outside into the channel to displace the element already there, which thus falls into the central hole. The coolant gas enters the reactor at the central hole, circulates in the fuel-element channels, and leaves the reactor through conduits that are in connection with an annular space formed between the core and the reactor shell. (NPO)
- Research Organization:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-010564
- OSTI ID:
- 4095912
- Report Number(s):
- FR 1223197
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-61
- Country of Publication:
- France
- Language:
- English
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