VENTED FUEL ELEMENT FOR GAS-COOLED NEUTRONIC REACTORS
Abstract
A hollow, porous-walled fuel element filled with fissionable fuel and provided with an outlet port through its wall is described. In operation in a gas-cooled reactor, the element is connected, through its outlet port, to the vacuum side of a pump that causes a portion of the coolant gas flowing over the exterior surface of the element to be drawn through the porous walls thereof and out through the outlet port. This continuous purging gas flow sweeps away gaseous fission products as they are released by the fissioning fuel. (AEC) A fuel element for a nuclear reactor incorporating a body of metal of melting point lower than the temperature of operation of the reactor and a nuclear fuel in finely divided form dispersed in the body of metal as a settled slurry is presented. (AEC)
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4148736
- Patent Number(s):
- 3114693
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS G21C - NUCLEAR REACTORS
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
- NSA Number:
- NSA-18-004779
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-64
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- REACTOR TECHNOLOGY; CANNING; CONFIGURATION; COOLANT LOOPS; DECONTAMINATION; FISSION PRODUCTS; FISSIONABLE MATERIALS; FUEL ELEMENTS; GAS COOLANT; GAS FLOW; GASES; HEAT TRANSFER; JOINTS; PIPES; PLANNING; POROSITY; POWER PLANTS; PUMPS; SEALS; SURFACES; TUBES; VACUUM
Citation Formats
Furgerson, W T. VENTED FUEL ELEMENT FOR GAS-COOLED NEUTRONIC REACTORS. United States: N. p., 1963.
Web.
Furgerson, W T. VENTED FUEL ELEMENT FOR GAS-COOLED NEUTRONIC REACTORS. United States.
Furgerson, W T. Tue .
"VENTED FUEL ELEMENT FOR GAS-COOLED NEUTRONIC REACTORS". United States.
@article{osti_4148736,
title = {VENTED FUEL ELEMENT FOR GAS-COOLED NEUTRONIC REACTORS},
author = {Furgerson, W T},
abstractNote = {A hollow, porous-walled fuel element filled with fissionable fuel and provided with an outlet port through its wall is described. In operation in a gas-cooled reactor, the element is connected, through its outlet port, to the vacuum side of a pump that causes a portion of the coolant gas flowing over the exterior surface of the element to be drawn through the porous walls thereof and out through the outlet port. This continuous purging gas flow sweeps away gaseous fission products as they are released by the fissioning fuel. (AEC) A fuel element for a nuclear reactor incorporating a body of metal of melting point lower than the temperature of operation of the reactor and a nuclear fuel in finely divided form dispersed in the body of metal as a settled slurry is presented. (AEC)},
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journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {1963},
month = {12}
}