Rotating safety drum nuclear reactor

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1976-09-28

1978-08-15

Behrend, Harvey E.

176 39, 176 45, 176 58PB, G21C 708

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041069846

ABSTRACT:
A gas cooled nuclear fission reactor employing spherical fuel elements which are held in a critical assembly configuration by centrifugal forces. This is accomplished by inserting the spherical fuel elements in a rotating drum of a shape suitable to ensure that a nuclear critical configuration of the total entity of fuel elements can only be achieved if the centrifugal forces are present. This has the effect that in case of a loss of load, a loss of coolant or other adverse occurences, the critical part of the reactor will disassemble itself, by gravitational forces exclusively, into a non-critical configuration.

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