NEUTRONIC REACTOR OPERATIONAL METHOD AND CORE SYSTEM
Abstract
Homogeneous neutronic reactor systems are described wherein an aqueous fuel solution is continuously circulated through a spherical core tank. The pumped fuel solution-is injected tangentially into the hollow spherical interior, thereby maintaining vigorous rotation of the solution within the tank in the form of a vortex; gaseous radiolytic decomposition products concentrate within the axial vortex cavity. The evolved gas is continuously discharged through a gas- outlet port registering with an extremity of the vortex cavity. and the solution stream is discharged through an annular liquid outlet port concentrically encircling the gas outlet by virtue of which the vortex and its cavity are maintained precisely axially aligned with the gas outlet. A primary heat exchanger extracts useful heat from the hot effluent fuel solution before its recirculation into the core tank. Hollow cylinders and other alternative core- tank configurations defining geometric volumes of revolution about a principal axis are also covered. AEC's Homogeneous Reactor Experiment No. 1 is a preferred embodiment.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4129261
- Patent Number(s):
- 2945794
- 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
G - PHYSICS G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS G21C - NUCLEAR REACTORS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-026443
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-60
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- REACTOR TECHNOLOGY; DECOMPOSITION; FUEL SOLUTIONS; GAS FLOW; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; HRE-1; LIQUID FLOW; PATENT; RADIOLYSIS; REACTOR CORE; REACTORS; ROTATION; SPHERES; TURBULENCE; WATER COOLANT
Citation Formats
Winters, C E, Graham, C B, Culver, J S, and Wilson, R H. NEUTRONIC REACTOR OPERATIONAL METHOD AND CORE SYSTEM. United States: N. p., 1960.
Web.
Winters, C E, Graham, C B, Culver, J S, & Wilson, R H. NEUTRONIC REACTOR OPERATIONAL METHOD AND CORE SYSTEM. United States.
Winters, C E, Graham, C B, Culver, J S, and Wilson, R H. Tue .
"NEUTRONIC REACTOR OPERATIONAL METHOD AND CORE SYSTEM". United States.
@article{osti_4129261,
title = {NEUTRONIC REACTOR OPERATIONAL METHOD AND CORE SYSTEM},
author = {Winters, C E and Graham, C B and Culver, J S and Wilson, R H},
abstractNote = {Homogeneous neutronic reactor systems are described wherein an aqueous fuel solution is continuously circulated through a spherical core tank. The pumped fuel solution-is injected tangentially into the hollow spherical interior, thereby maintaining vigorous rotation of the solution within the tank in the form of a vortex; gaseous radiolytic decomposition products concentrate within the axial vortex cavity. The evolved gas is continuously discharged through a gas- outlet port registering with an extremity of the vortex cavity. and the solution stream is discharged through an annular liquid outlet port concentrically encircling the gas outlet by virtue of which the vortex and its cavity are maintained precisely axially aligned with the gas outlet. A primary heat exchanger extracts useful heat from the hot effluent fuel solution before its recirculation into the core tank. Hollow cylinders and other alternative core- tank configurations defining geometric volumes of revolution about a principal axis are also covered. AEC's Homogeneous Reactor Experiment No. 1 is a preferred embodiment.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1960},
month = {7}
}