DIRECT-CYCLE, BOILING-WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR
Abstract
A direct-cycle boiling-water nuclear reactor is described that employs a closed vessel and a plurality of fuel assemblies, each comprising an outer tube closed at its lower end, an inner tube, fuel rods in the space between the tubes and within the inner tube. A body of water lying within the pressure vessel and outside the fuel assemblies is converted to saturated steam, which enters each fuel assembly at the top and is converted to superheated steam in the fuel assembly while it is passing therethrough first downward through the space between the inner and outer tubes of the fuel assembly and then upward through the inner tube. (AEC)
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4807323
- Patent Number(s):
- 3049487
- 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-16-026581
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-62
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- REACTOR TECHNOLOGY; BOILING; FLUID FLOW; FUEL ELEMENTS; PATENT; PRESSURE VESSELS; REACTORS; RODS; STEAM; SUPERHEATING; TUBES; WATER COOLANT; WATER MODERATOR
Citation Formats
Harrer, J M, Fromm, Jr, L W, and Kolba, V M. DIRECT-CYCLE, BOILING-WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR. United States: N. p., 1962.
Web.
Harrer, J M, Fromm, Jr, L W, & Kolba, V M. DIRECT-CYCLE, BOILING-WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR. United States.
Harrer, J M, Fromm, Jr, L W, and Kolba, V M. Tue .
"DIRECT-CYCLE, BOILING-WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR". United States.
@article{osti_4807323,
title = {DIRECT-CYCLE, BOILING-WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR},
author = {Harrer, J M and Fromm, Jr, L W and Kolba, V M},
abstractNote = {A direct-cycle boiling-water nuclear reactor is described that employs a closed vessel and a plurality of fuel assemblies, each comprising an outer tube closed at its lower end, an inner tube, fuel rods in the space between the tubes and within the inner tube. A body of water lying within the pressure vessel and outside the fuel assemblies is converted to saturated steam, which enters each fuel assembly at the top and is converted to superheated steam in the fuel assembly while it is passing therethrough first downward through the space between the inner and outer tubes of the fuel assembly and then upward through the inner tube. (AEC)},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1962},
month = {8}
}
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