HORIZONTAL BOILING REACTOR SYSTEM
Patent
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OSTI ID:4296274
Reactors of the boiling water type are described wherein water serves both as the moderator and coolant. The reactor system consists essentially of a horizontal pressure vessel divided into two compartments by a weir, a thermal neutronic reactor core having vertical coolant passages and designed to use water as a moderator-coolant posltioned in one compartment, means for removing live steam from the other compartment and means for conveying feed-water and water from the steam compartment to the reactor compartment. The system further includes auxiliary apparatus to utilize the steam for driving a turbine and returning the condensate to the feed-water inlet of the reactor. The entire system is designed so that the reactor is self-regulating and has self-limiting power and self-limiting pressure features.
- Research Organization:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-008406
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Number(s):
- US 2861033
- OSTI ID:
- 4296274
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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