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Title: BOILING WATER REACTOR WITH FEED WATER INJECTION NOZZLES

Patent ·
OSTI ID:4725517

This patent covers the use of injection nozzles for pumping water into the lower ends of reactor fuel tubes in which water is converted directly to steam. Pumping water through fuel tubes of this type of boiling water reactor increases its power. The injection nozzles decrease the size of pump needed, because the pump handles only the water going through the nozzles, additional water being sucked into the tubes by the nozzles independently of the pump from the exterior body of water in which the fuel tubes are immersed. The resulting movement of exterior water along the tubes holds down steam formation, and thus maintains the moderator effectiveness, of the exterior body of water. (AEC)

Research Organization:
Originating Research Org. not identified
NSA Number:
NSA-17-019666
Assignee:
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Patent Number(s):
US 3087881
OSTI ID:
4725517
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-63
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English