POWER BREEDER REACTOR
Abstract
An arrangement is offered for preventing or minimizing the contraction due to temperature rise, of a reactor core comprising vertical fuel rods in sodium. Temperature rise of the fuel rods would normally make them move closer together by inward bowing, with a resultant undesired increase in reactivity. According to the present invention, assemblies of the fuel rods are laterally restrained at the lower ends of their lower blanket sections and just above the middle of the fuel sections proper of the rods, and thus the fuel sections move apart, rather than together, with increase in temperature.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4098410
- Patent Number(s):
- 2961393
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01C - RESISTORS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-008378
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-61
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- REACTOR TECHNOLOGY; BLANKETS; BREEDING; FUEL ELEMENTS; GEOMETRY; LIQUID METAL COOLANT; POWER PLANTS; REACTIVITY; REACTOR CORE; REACTORS; RODS; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE; VOLUME
Citation Formats
Monson, H O. POWER BREEDER REACTOR. United States: N. p., 1960.
Web.
Monson, H O. POWER BREEDER REACTOR. United States.
Monson, H O. Tue .
"POWER BREEDER REACTOR". United States.
@article{osti_4098410,
title = {POWER BREEDER REACTOR},
author = {Monson, H O},
abstractNote = {An arrangement is offered for preventing or minimizing the contraction due to temperature rise, of a reactor core comprising vertical fuel rods in sodium. Temperature rise of the fuel rods would normally make them move closer together by inward bowing, with a resultant undesired increase in reactivity. According to the present invention, assemblies of the fuel rods are laterally restrained at the lower ends of their lower blanket sections and just above the middle of the fuel sections proper of the rods, and thus the fuel sections move apart, rather than together, with increase in temperature.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1960},
month = {11}
}
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