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Review of Development Status of Nuclear Superheat; Expose sur l'etat actuel des travaux concernant la surchauffe nucleaire; Obzor razrabotki voprosa o yadernykh peregrevatelyakh; Estudio de los progresos realizados en niateria de sobrecalentamiento nuclear

Abstract

The General Electric Company has been actively engaged in development work on nuclear superheat from light-water-moderated reactors since 1959, at which time the Company-financed Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment (SADE) produced the first nuclear superheated steam in the United States. The current status of nuclear superheat is divided into two major categories. The first is a description of the three major superheat fuel irradiation facilities used by the General Electric Company, and the second is a description of the two major development programme activities with an up-to-date review of the significant superheat development results. 1. Major development facilities: (a) A brief description is given of the Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment (SADE) utilized in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR), with tables of operating conditions, fuel elements irradiated during the period between May 1959, and June 1962, and a discussion of significant experimental results. (b) A brief description is given of the Expanded Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment (E-SADE) in operation in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor, with tables of operating conditions, fuel elements irradiated in the E-SADE facility and a discussion of the significant development results. (c) A brief description is given of the Empire States Atomic Development Associates-Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor  More>>
Authors:
Imhoff, D. H.; Pennington, R. T. [1] 
  1. General Electric Company, San Jose, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Oct 15, 1963
Product Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Conference on Operating Experience with Power Reactors, Vienna (Austria), 4-8 Jun 1963; Other Information: 17 figs., 7 tabs., 65 refs.; Related Information: In: Operating Experience with Power Reactors. Proceedings of the Conference on Operating Experience with Power Reactors. Vol. I| 540 p.
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 42 ENGINEERING; BURNUP; BWR TYPE REACTORS; CONSTRUCTION; CORROSION; COST ESTIMATION; FUEL ELEMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; REACTOR OPERATION; REVIEWS; STEAM; SUPERHEATING; USA
OSTI ID:
22106408
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ISSN 0074-1884; TRN: XA13R0383064229
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 37-83
Announcement Date:
Jun 20, 2013

Citation Formats

Imhoff, D. H., and Pennington, R. T. Review of Development Status of Nuclear Superheat; Expose sur l'etat actuel des travaux concernant la surchauffe nucleaire; Obzor razrabotki voprosa o yadernykh peregrevatelyakh; Estudio de los progresos realizados en niateria de sobrecalentamiento nuclear. IAEA: N. p., 1963. Web.
Imhoff, D. H., & Pennington, R. T. Review of Development Status of Nuclear Superheat; Expose sur l'etat actuel des travaux concernant la surchauffe nucleaire; Obzor razrabotki voprosa o yadernykh peregrevatelyakh; Estudio de los progresos realizados en niateria de sobrecalentamiento nuclear. IAEA.
Imhoff, D. H., and Pennington, R. T. 1963. "Review of Development Status of Nuclear Superheat; Expose sur l'etat actuel des travaux concernant la surchauffe nucleaire; Obzor razrabotki voprosa o yadernykh peregrevatelyakh; Estudio de los progresos realizados en niateria de sobrecalentamiento nuclear." IAEA.
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title = {Review of Development Status of Nuclear Superheat; Expose sur l'etat actuel des travaux concernant la surchauffe nucleaire; Obzor razrabotki voprosa o yadernykh peregrevatelyakh; Estudio de los progresos realizados en niateria de sobrecalentamiento nuclear}
author = {Imhoff, D. H., and Pennington, R. T.}
abstractNote = {The General Electric Company has been actively engaged in development work on nuclear superheat from light-water-moderated reactors since 1959, at which time the Company-financed Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment (SADE) produced the first nuclear superheated steam in the United States. The current status of nuclear superheat is divided into two major categories. The first is a description of the three major superheat fuel irradiation facilities used by the General Electric Company, and the second is a description of the two major development programme activities with an up-to-date review of the significant superheat development results. 1. Major development facilities: (a) A brief description is given of the Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment (SADE) utilized in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR), with tables of operating conditions, fuel elements irradiated during the period between May 1959, and June 1962, and a discussion of significant experimental results. (b) A brief description is given of the Expanded Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment (E-SADE) in operation in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor, with tables of operating conditions, fuel elements irradiated in the E-SADE facility and a discussion of the significant development results. (c) A brief description is given of the Empire States Atomic Development Associates-Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor (ESADA-VESR), list of expected operated conditions including design conditions of the initial superheat core loading, and a report on the current status of construction. 2. Major superheat development programme activities: (a) A brief description is given of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC) sponsored Nuclear Superheat Project which has been in progress at the San Jose site of the General Electric Company since July 1959 A brief description of the individual tasks is given with tables giving significant development results in the areas of superheat fuel irradiation performance, in-pile and out-of-pile uniform and localized corrosion evaluations, results from thermal superheat critical experiments, results from experimental heat-transfer testing and a brief appraisal of the economic incentives of the separate superheat reactor, integral superheat reactor, and mixed-spectrum superheat reactor design studies. (b) A brief description is given of the USAEC-Sponsored ESADA-VESR nuclear superheat fuel development programme. The development tasks, the initial core superheat fuel-element design, the range of experimental variables, and the expected results for the three-year fuel development programme are discussed. (author [French] Depuis 1959, la Societe General Electric s'occupe activement de mettre au point la surchauffe nucleaire dans les reacteurs ralentis a l'eau ordinaire. A cette epoque, le ''Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment'' (SADE), finance par la societe, a permis d'obtenir, pour la premiere fois aux Etats-Unis, de la vapeur surchauffee par un dispositif nucleaire. Les auteurs du memoire font le point de la situation actuelle concernant la surchauffe nucleaire. Ils decrivent, dans une premiere partie, les trois principales installations de surchauffe nucleaire utilisees par la General Electric et, dans la seconde, les deux principaux programmes de recherches sur la surchauffe ainsi que les resultats les plus importants obtenus jusqu'ici dans ce domaine. 1. Principales installations pour les experiences de surchauffe: a) Breve description du SADE utilise dans le reacteur a eau bouillante de Vallecitos (VBWR), avec tableaux des conditions dans lesquelles se deroulent les experiences, et des elements combustibles irradies pendant la periode comprise entre mai 1959 et juin 1962; puis examen critique des resultats les plus importants ainsi obtenus. b) Breve description de l' ''Expanded Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment'' (E-SADE) installe dans le reacteur de Vallecitos, avec tableaux des conditions dans lesquelles se deroulent les experiences, et des elements combustibles irradies dans l'installation; puis, examen critique des resultats les plus importants ainsi obtenus. c) Breve description de Empire States Atomic Development Associates - Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor (ESADA-VESR), liste des conditions dans lesquelles on compte effectuer les experiences, notamment conception de la charg'e initiale du coeur du surchauffeur; puis, description de l'etat actuel de la construction du dispositif. 2. Principaux programmes de recherches sur la surchauffe: a) Breve description du projet de surchauffe nucleaire patronne par la Commission de l'energie atomique et en cours de realisation, depuis juillet 1959, au centre de San Jose, cree par la General Electric. Apercu des diverses taches, avec tableaux des principaux resultats obtenus en ce qui concerne le rendement du combustible nucleaire utilise pour la surchauffe, evaluations de la corrosion uniforme et localisee observee dans la pile et hors de la pile, et tableaux des resultats obtenus lors d'experiences critiques de surchauffe thermique et lors des essais experimentaux de transfert de chaleur; enfin, bref examen des avantages economiques que presentent, d'apres les etudes, les reacteurs a surchauffe separee, les reacteurs a surchauffe integree et les reacteurs a surchauffe a spectre mixte. b) Breve description du programme de mise au point des combustibles pour la surchauffe nucleaire, execute sous l'egide de la Commission de l'energie atomique par ESADA-VESR. Examen des travaux de recherche, de l'etude des elements combustibles du coeur initial, de la gamme des variables experimentales et des resultats que l'on compte obtenir de l'execution de ce programme de trois ans. (author) [Spanish] Desde 1959, la General Electric Company se ocupa activamente del desarrollo del sobrecalentamiento nuclear en reactores moderados con agua ligera. En aquel aflo, el ''Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment'' (SADE), financiado por la citada compania, permitio obtener por vez primera en los Estados Unidos vapor sobrecalentado por medios nucleares. Los autores examinan la situacion actual en materia de sobrecalentamiento nuclear. Describen, en la primera parte de la memoria, las tres instalaciones para irradiacion de combustible con sobrecalentador empleadas por la General Electric Company, y en la segunda los dos principales programas de investigaciones acerca del sobrecalentamiento, asi como los resultados mas importantes alcanzados hasta ahora en esa esfera. 1. Principales instalaciones: a) Breve descripcion del SADE empleado en el reactor de agua hirviente de Vallecitos (VBWR), con cuadros en que figuran las condiciones de funcionamiento, los elementos combustibles irradiados entre mayo de 1959 y junio de 1962, y un examen critico de los resultados experimentales de mayor importancia. b) Breve descripcion del ''Expanded Superheat Advance Demonstration Experiment'' (E-SADE) que funciona en el reactor de agua hirviente de Vallecitos, con cuadros en que figuran las condiciones de funcionamiento, los elementos combustibles irradiados en la instalacion E-SADE, y una discusion dc los resultados mas importantes. c) Breve descripcion del ''Empire States Atomic Development Associates-Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor'' (ESADA-VESR), con una lista de las condiciones de funcionamiento previstas, inclusive el diseflo de la primera carga del sobrecalentador, y examen del estado actual de la construccion del dispositivo. 2. Principales programas de investigaciones acerca del sobrecalentamiento nuclear: a) Breve descripcion del proyecto de sobrecalentamiento nuclear patrocinado por la Comision de Energia Atomica, cuya ejecucion comenzo en julio de 1959 en las instalaciones de San Jose de la General Electric Company. Se resumen los diversos problemas estudiados, con cuadros en que figuran los principales resultados obtenidos en lo que respecta al rendimiento del combustible nuclear utilizado en el sobrecalentador, evaluaciones de la corrosion uniforme y localizada, tanto en el interior como en el exterior del reactor, resultados de experimentos criticos de sobrecalentamiento termico, y de las comprobaciones experimentales de transmision de calor; por ultimo, examen sucinto de las ventajas economicas que, segun los estudios, presentan los reactores de sobrecalentador separado, los reactores de sobrecalentador integrado y los reactores con sobrecalentamiento de espectro mixto. b) Breve descripcion del programa ESADA-VESR de desarrollo de combustibles para sobrecalentamiento nuclear, patrocinado por la Comision de Energia Atomica. Examen de los trabajos de investigacion, del diseflo de los elementos combustibles de la primera carga del sobrecalentador, de la gama de variables experimentales y de los resultados previstos para el programa trienal de desarrollo del combustible. (author) [Russian] Nachinaya s 1959 goda kompaniya ''Dzheneral Ehlektrik'' aktivno zanimalas' provedeniem raboty v oblasti yadernogo peregreva na reaktorakh s zamedlitelem iz obychnoj vody. Za ehtot period v SSHA vpervye byl proizveden yadernyj peregretyj par v khode provedeniya usovershenstvovannogo demonstratsionnogo ehksperimenta s peregrevom cha ustanovke SADE. Ehtot proekt finansirovalsya kompaniej. Nyneshnee sostoyanie s yadernym peregrevom podrazdelyaetsya na dve glavnye kategorii. Pervaya yavlyaetsya opisaniem trekh osnovnykh ustanovok po oblucheniyu peregretogo topliva, ispol'zuemykh kompaniej ''Dzheneral ehlektrik'', i vtoraya - opisaniem dvukh glavnykh razrabotannykh programm deyatel'nosti, vmeste s obzorom po sostoyaniyu na segodnyashnij den' znachitel'nykh rezul'tatov razvitiya v oblasti peregreva. 1. Glavnye usovershenstvovannye ustanovki: a) Daehtsya kratkoe opisanie ehksperimenta (SADE) na Vallesitosskom reaktore s kipyashchej vodoj (VBWR), privodyatsya tablitsy ehkspluatatsionnykh uslovij, dannye o toplivnykh ehlementakh, obluchennykh v period mezhdu maem 1959 goda i iyunem 1962 goda, i itogi obsuzhdeniya znachitel'nykh ehksperimental'nykh rezul'tatov. b). Daetsya kratkoe opisanie rasshirennogo usovershenstovannogo demonstratsionnogo ehksperimenta s peregrevom (E-SADE) pri rabote Vallesitosskogo reaktora s kipyashchej vodoj, privodyatsya tablitsy ehkspluatatsionnykh uslovij, dannye o toplivnykh ehlementakh, obluchennykh na ustanovke E-SADE, i itogi obsuzhdeniya znachitel'nykh rezul'tatov prodelannoj raboty. c) Daetsya kratkoe opisanie reaktora Ehmpajr Stejts Atomik Development Assoshiejts-Vallesitos- skogo ehksperimental'nogo reaktora s peregrevom (ESAD-VESR), privoditsya spisok ozhidaemykh rabochikh uslovij, vklyuchaya konstruktsionnye usloviya pervonachal'noj zagruzki aktivnoj zony s peregrevom, i otchet o tekushchem sostoyanii stroitel'nykh rabot.}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1963}
month = {Oct}
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