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Title: Automatic safety rod for reactors. [LMFBR]

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6469290

An automatic safety rod for a nuclear reactor containing neutron absorbing material and designed to be inserted into a reactor core after a loss-of-flow. Actuation is based upon either a sudden decrease in core pressure drop or the pressure drop decreases below a predetermined minimum value. The automatic control rod includes a pressure regulating device whereby a controlled decrease in operating pressure due to reduced coolant flow does not cause the rod to drop into the core.

DOE Contract Number:
AT03-76SF71032
Assignee:
ERA-08-017903; EDB-83-049729
Application Number:
ON: DE83006874
OSTI ID:
6469290
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English