FUEL ELEMENT FOR A NEUTRONIC REACTOR
Abstract
A fuel element is presented for a reactor comprising a stack of conical bodies of nonfissionable material disposed with the vertex up carrying wafers of fissionable material in grooves near the periphery. These bodies are in a jacket which contains a thermally conducting liquid immersing the bodies. Gaseous fission preducts pass upwardly through central apertures in the bodies while fragments of fissionable material are trapped by vertical projections or walls on the upper surface of the bodies.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4177947
- Patent Number(s):
- 2905611
- 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-14-007115
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-60
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- REACTOR TECHNOLOGY; FISSION PRODUCTS; FISSIONABLE MATERIALS; FUEL ELEMENTS; GASES; JACKETS; LIQUIDS; PLANNING; REACTORS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
Citation Formats
Tonks, L. FUEL ELEMENT FOR A NEUTRONIC REACTOR. United States: N. p., 1959.
Web.
Tonks, L. FUEL ELEMENT FOR A NEUTRONIC REACTOR. United States.
Tonks, L. Tue .
"FUEL ELEMENT FOR A NEUTRONIC REACTOR". United States.
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abstractNote = {A fuel element is presented for a reactor comprising a stack of conical bodies of nonfissionable material disposed with the vertex up carrying wafers of fissionable material in grooves near the periphery. These bodies are in a jacket which contains a thermally conducting liquid immersing the bodies. Gaseous fission preducts pass upwardly through central apertures in the bodies while fragments of fissionable material are trapped by vertical projections or walls on the upper surface of the bodies.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1959},
month = {9}
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