Automatic safety rod for reactors. [LMFBR]

Title: Automatic safety rod for reactors. [LMFBR]

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An automatic safety rod for a nuclear reactor containing neutron absorbing material and designed to be inserted into a reactor core after a loss-of-flow. Actuation is based upon either a sudden decrease in core pressure drop or the pressure drop decreases below a predetermined minimum value. The automatic control rod includes a pressure regulating device whereby a controlled decrease in operating pressure due to reduced coolant flow does not cause the rod to drop into the core.

Inventors:: Germer, J H

Issue Date:: 1982-03-23

OSTI Identifier:: 6469290

Application Number:: ON: DE83006874

Assignee:: ERA-08-017903; EDB-83-049729

DOE Contract Number:: AT03-76SF71032

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; SCRAM RODS; BREEDER REACTORS; CONTROL ELEMENTS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; 220400* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Control Systems; 210500 - Power Reactors, Breeding

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